Re: Devanagari composing help needed

From: Ambarish Sridharanarayanan (unicode@ambarish.ksharanam.net)
Date: Thu Jun 07 2007 - 01:23:07 CDT

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    I went ahead and installed the font. Here's what I found:

    Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:
    > 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.

    It's a ligated form of 0930 after a half-consonant (in this case
    091f+094d). Try typing in 091f+094d+0930 and you should see the same
    combined glyph.

    > 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)

    As Mark Shoulson suspected, this is another ligature, this time
    091c+094d+091e.



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