The problem with putting Indian script conjunct characters and ligatures
in the character coding will not solve the problem. Each font can have a
different way of how glyphs are put together to render a certain sequence of
characters, so, the mapping of characters-to-glyph is really dependent on
the font, influenced by such things as design (sometimes you can re-use
the standing bar of a-matra in devanagari for the right most part of quite a
lot of letters, saving a lot of full letter glyphs in the font)
Ofcourse you can put a load of glyphs somewhere, but will it be helpful to
font designers? I doubt, because not all font designers want to create all
exotic glyphs, for example, for conjuncts required in Sanskrit only.
Jeroen
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>You also don't want to add all the conjunct characters used in
>Indian scripts...
I would be happy to put them in plane 17 or something so we could have a
unified glyph space (i.e. AFII) with permanent character-to-glyph mapping
vectors. That would be helpful to many font implementors.
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