Re: Fonts that support the ORNL rendering of Tamil?

From: Michael \(michka\) Kaplan (michka@trigeminal.com)
Date: Tue Oct 31 2000 - 12:21:12 EST


I am working on it, as we speak.

michka

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Davis" <mark@macchiato.com>
To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 8:45 AM
Subject: Re: Fonts that support the ORNL rendering of Tamil?

> Can someone write up a description of the proposed change, with the
> attandant glyphs. There is a UTC meeting next week in San Diego, so now's
> the time.
>
> Mark
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Antoine Leca" <Antoine.Leca@renault.fr>
> To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 07:49
> Subject: Re: Fonts that support the ORNL rendering of Tamil?
>
>
> > Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote:
> > >
> > > Since Tamil has been encoded in Unicode, the ORNL rendering (which is
> > > described in 9.6.5 of TUS 3.0) has been the only one "officially"
> described,
> > > although most fonts, from Arial Unicode MS to Latha and others seem to
> not
> > > support it.
> > <snip>
> > > This is fine, since most people who use the language do not want it
> anyway
> > > (<g>), but I just wonder if there are any fonts that support it?
> >
> > Monotype have the glyph in its repertoire:
> > <URL:http://www.monotype.com/non-latin/wt_glyphs/gr_tamil.html>
> >
> > The bottom line of the discussion on this subject some weeks ago was
that
> > it should be available as an option, so that the standard needs to be
> revised
> > here (because for the moment it is too strong a requirement).
> >
> >
> > Antoine
>
>



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