Re: Unicode 4.0 Beta - Glyphs of proposed addition of Characters in Gujarati

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Thu Feb 13 2003 - 11:08:23 EST

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At 09:35 +0000 2003-02-13, Manoj Jain wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Just now I referred the Unicode 4.0 beta for Gujarati script. (URL -
><http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U40-0A80.pdf>http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U40-0A80.pdf
>). I noticed that the glyphs for the code points 0A8C (GUJARATI
>LETTER VOCALIC L ) and 0AE1 (GUJARATI LETTER VOCALIC LL ) are wrong.
>The Gujarati characters never have any SHIROREKHA (Top Line). The
>glyphs of these characters need to be corrected immediately.

The reason we have those glyphs is because that is what we got from
India. See L2/01-304. I'll do what I can to give the editors new
glyphs. Are you SURE that the small vertical line that would attach
to the shirorekha should be preserved? It seems unlikely to me.

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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com

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