Re: Bengali script - where is "khanda ta"?

From: John H. Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Tue May 21 2002 - 18:04:11 EDT


On Tuesday, May 21, 2002, at 01:03 PM, Somnath Kundu wrote:

>
> Is that same for Unicode, i.e.,
>
> Ta + Halant + Halant -> Khanda Ta
>
> and how Uniscribe handle this case? In other words, how can I write
> Khanda Ta in Unicode?
>>

Forgive me, but this is a pet peeve of mine. How something is done in
Unicode and how it's done in Uniscribe are *NOT* the same thing.

> The reason for my posting was that I found Code2000 font some days ago
> and installed Bangla keyboard driver manually, found on my MSDN Win2k CD,
> on 2k/XP to type some Bangla letters but was not able to type Khanda Ta.
> (The glyph is also probably missing in that font).
>
>

I don't think that Code2000 is an OpenType font, which means it won't have
the ancillary glyphs and data needed to do full proper support of many
languages and scripts.

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