Re: [Freefont-bugs] Sinhala engine for Uniscribe

[sinhala]

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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