At 22:50 4/13/2002, Michael \(michka\) Kaplan wrote:
>There is very little on that page that is not explained up at:
>
>http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/indic.html
>
>The site you found is basically wrong.
Very wrong.
There are a lot of Bengali font developers among the 2,500+ members of the
VOLT user community developing OpenType fonts for complex scripts.
Microsoft's implementation of Unicode Indic encoding and shaping is well
documented at
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otfntdev/indicot/default.htm. Although
this document does not include Bengali-specific information yet, this has
not prevented font developers from beginning development and testing using
pre-release updates to Uniscribe. Of particular note, Mike Meir in London
has been working with Tim Holloway, the designer of the original Linotype
Bengali typeface in the 1970s, to produce a new and Linotype-approved
version of this classic and brilliant design (the most popular and most
pirated Bengali typeface).
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
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