> Shaheed, > I have never worked with fonts before, but as a result of trying to spread > use of Bengali on computers I had to scratch the surface of font world! From > what I understand the most sensible thing [for using Bengali with computers] > will be to use the private space of Unicode. Here are the reasons why I > think so:
If you haven't already done so, you should probably post a request for guidance on the Unicode list as well ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ; subscription instructions are at http://www.unicode.org/unicode/consortium/distlist.html). I don't know that there was ever any intention that the PUA (private use area) be used for the purpose suggested above, though I'm no expert on Indic scripts, but if someone is going to do the work of providing a solution for Bengali on XFree86, it would make the most sense to implement the Unicode Standard's recommendations and *other standards* wherever possible rather than come up with something sui generis and thereby contributing to the proliferation of standards. Good luck. Patrick Rourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
