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Re: [Freefont-bugs] Sinhala engine for Uniscribe
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Re: [Freefont-bugs] Sinhala engine for Uniscribe |
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Sun, 13 Apr 2003 00:01:20 +0600 |
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 12:23:08PM +0200, Primoz PETERLIN wrote:
Hello Primoz
> (I have absolutely no
> information on Sinhalese, but I presume the situation is similar to the
> one with South Indian languages).
It is very much the same for the Sinhala script with a few exceptions.
> There are several ways to solve this problem. One is to devise an ad-hoc
> "standard" for encoding the un-encoded glyphs. I would instead propose to
> use the solutions provided by Unicode and OpenType:
Thanks for your advice.
> What we do need is a list of all glyphs neccessary to render Sinhalese. In
> theory this means 41 consonants x 18 vowels, which equals 738 glyphs. From
> my experience with south Indic languages, most of these glyphs mean simply
> prefixing or suffixing by a wovel sign, but for some wovels it might mean
> an entirely separate glyph.
How do you expect me to provide you with that information?
I could type all the codes into a single bitmap and send it.
Please let me know what you want me to do.
best regards
Mettavihari
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