[Lohit-devel-list] Query for Malayalam Font

[pravin.d.s at gmail.com]

On 4 January 2014 19:08, Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 2:58 PM, pravin.d.s at gmail.com
> <pravin.d.s at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am doubtful that people might be using this in iscii and same is
> proposed
> > by TDIL.
> > forming same ligature by both U+0D30 and U+0D31 looks doubtful to me as
> > well.  Unicode says nothing on this.
>
> Unicode says in general (TUS 6.2 p 286, p 316 of PDF) that C + VIRAMA
> + RA forms C2-conjoining form of RA. It is inadvisable to have both KA
> + VIRAMA + RA/RRA to render as the same as it would result in
> confusability issues in IDNs and hence phishing attacks.
>

Indeed.
We should not repeat mistake done earlier with eyelash-reph [1] of
Devanagari. I will reply to TDIL for fixing it in there next release.

Thanks,
Pravin Satpute


1. Eyelash reph can be form with both U+0930 and U+0931.
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