From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven (asmodai@in-nomine.org)
Date: Wed Jun 06 2007 - 17:28:48 CDT
An acquaintance of mine received some Hindi text that was translated. The
translator was apparently someone who had never heard of Unicode since the
font he/she used is Kurti Dev 010 (krdv010.ttf -
http://www.deoria.nic.in/h_font/h_font1.htm), which is a font that's mapped to
the ASCII range for Devanagari.
So I set out using BabelPad to construct a proper UTF-8 string for my
acquaintance. I have everything switched over, except for 2 characters that
kind of confuse me.
The font maps the first to:
"V~zh
Which I traced to:
" = 0937 (ssa) 094d (virama)
V = 091f (tta)
~ = 094d (virama)
z = is a mystery to me, it looks like small slash cutting half-way through the
curve of tta
h = 0940 (ii)
I tried to construct this as 0937 + 094d + 091f + 094d + ZWJ + 0940 and within
BabelPad this looks good. Firefox, however, doesn't like it. Neither does
Opera. Internet Explorer, however, shows it as I expected it. Am I composing
this correctly? And what could that 'slash'-like glyph be? I cannot find any
decent mapping of it.
The second maps to:
Kk
Which I traced to:
K = no idea, it looks like 0907 (i), but without the connecting part to the
top line, but instead connecting to the right to a 093e (aa)
k = 093e (aa)
Any ideas are very welcome. :)
-- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai(-at-)in-nomine.org> / asmodai イェルーン ラウフロック ヴァン デル ウェルヴェン http://www.in-nomine.org/ | http://www.rangaku.org/ The heart has reasons of which reason has no knowledge...
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