[Debian-in-workers] Fwd: Lohit Assamese and Kashmiri fonts

[Vasudev Kamath]

Below is the reply from upstream of lohit fonts. So till they merge
both fonts we will go with approach christian mentioned
fonts-lohit-beng-assamese / fonts-lohit-beng-as.

If any one has any other suggestion please reply to this mail.

Best Regards


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From: pravin.d.s at gmail.com <pravin.d.s at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: Lohit Assamese and Kashmiri fonts
To: Santhosh Thottingal <santhosh.thottingal at gmail.com>
Cc: Vasudev Kamath <kamathvasudev at gmail.com>, Fedora
internationalization discussions <i18n at lists.fedoraproject.org>




2011/11/13 Santhosh Thottingal <santhosh.thottingal at gmail.com>
>
> Pravin,
> We got confused while renaming the package names for Indic fonts when
> we see two different fonts for Assamese and Bengali - lohit-as
> lohit-bn
> Both uses Bengali, so how the font differs? I know two three character
> diffrences, but normally included in bengali font itself. Same is the
> case for devanagari- lohit-hi and lohit-ks

We have stopped releasing Lohit-hindi, Lohit-Kashmiri long time back,
since all of these fonts were identical.

>
> Could you please explain?

Yes, Bengali and Assamese language uses same script bengali, only
difference is Ra character.
Assamese uses U+09F0 and Bengali uses U+09B0

We can easily handle that in font but AFAIK presently only pango
support lang tag.  Lang tag is supported in harfbuzz-ng as well so
once we will have standardize OTLE we can definitely stop shipping
Lohit-Assamese and keep only Lohit Bengali.

Regards,
Pravin Satpute



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