[Indlinux-group] [Debian-in-workers] Bug#395280: Please include the AnjaliOldLipi font in ttf-malayalam-fonts

[Mahesh T. Pai]

Pra|Praveen said on Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 05:51:00PM +0530,:

 > It is incompatible with rachana (which is already in debian) when
 > rendering "chillu" (consonenents without vowel sound).

There is no `compatibility' between fonts. 

 > See rendering with
 > Rachana http://www.flickr.com/photos/pravi/280535196/
 > no font http://www.flickr.com/photos/pravi/280535195/
 > Freefont http://www.flickr.com/photos/pravi/280535194/
 > AnjaliOldLipi http://www.flickr.com/photos/pravi/280535191/

Oh. well, but  that is because some people  insist on implementing the
same specifications (The Unicode Specifications) in their own way.

 > I think  we all should agree on  a common scheme so  that all fonts
 > render it correctly.

Due to the inability of arriving at a consensus on whether the chillus
are `consonantq + chandrakkala + zwj' or just consonant +
Chandrakkala, (and other issues) the Unicode consortium finally
decided to encode them. 

 > So I think it wouldn't be nice to add before we
 > sort these issues.

Therefore, the issues are already sorted out for us. (see above).
 
IMHO, Anjali Old Lipi fonts and KDE combination shows the
closest-to-correct rendering.

And  just FYI,  the author  of Anjali  Old Lipi  (and  several others,
including me) considered  the problems with Rachana to  be bugs in the
Rachana font. Being  GPL, the athor of Anjali Old  lipi decided to fix
the Rachana font, but Rachana's authors threatened him withq copyright
violations. The response was to create Anjali Old Lipi fonts.

And yes,  pango does  not implement the  Unicode Standards  on Chillus
correctly.  But that  is  my  opinion. Some  may  insist that  pango's
implementation is correct.

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