[Lohit-devel-list] Lohit Malayalam test results

[pravin.d.s at gmail.com]

On 31 January 2014 11:10, Santhosh Thottingal <santhosh00 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lohit Malayalam test results using SMC's test suite attached for
> https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/o/lohit/lohit-
> malayalam-ttf-2.91.0.tar.gz
>
> The pdf shows the rendering mistakes that Ani can point out to
> Sneha/Pravin. The chillu ര്‍ is mapped to റ + ് + zwj. That is should be
> removed and keep only ര + ് + zwj
>

Agree. Even i did not found any reference for same. Will remove it.

>
> Also remove the glyph for Samvruthokaram which is non standard
>

Yes, that is regression after fixing in earlier version. [1]


> There is a duplicate glyph for U+0030
>

Yes

>
> There are a few glyphs without any ligature rules. eg: glyph206, glyph209
>

Yes, we missed rule for those.

>
> lllamlm_viramamlm.half_vamlm glyph looked like a hack.
>

This ligature was there in lohit 2.5.4 as well. This come with bugfix [3]
Yes adding direct ligature does not looks good solution as our aim is to
have compact font. Same time need to find some reference for same.



> Is there any reason to include Devangari danda and double danda in this
> font?
>

Unicode says:
0D64 " <reserved> and 0D65 " <reserved> are reserved and For viram
punctuation, use the generic Indic 0964 and 0965. [2] So ideally we should
put Malayalam script full stop there.

Does Malayalam have specific glyph for full stop?  If not then i think we
can remove it from font.


Thanks santhosh for your valuable feedback, We will report appropriate bugs
in github for same and will remove in next release.
I am cc'ing this email to lohit-devel to get more feedback on same.


Regards,
Pravin Satpute



1. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1013183
2. http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0D00.pdf
3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523166
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