Re: [Freebangfont-devel] k.ss.na or k.ss.nna ?

[TAKAHASHI Naoto]

Thank you for your response.

Deepayan Sarkar writes:

>> I consulted a linguistic encyclopedia.  It says KA+SSA+NA generates a
>> ligature.  (Mukti got one point.)

> What encyclopaedia is that?

A Japanese one.  But please forget about it.  I misread the
transliteration.  It also says KA+SSA+NNA generates a ligature.

> If you restrict yourself to correctly spelled words, there are several 
> words with KA+SSA+NNA and none with KA+SSA+NA. So it makes more sense 
> to have KA+SSA+NNA. I'm pretty sure the assignment in Mukti was a 
> mistake.

Thank you for the clarification.  I privately got another email saying
the very same thing.  Now I believe that KA+SSA+NNA is correct.

>> Another question: I have been unable to find a Bangla opentype font
>> that supports not only Bangla but also Assamese.  Since the number of
>> additional characters are very small (only two, if I remember
>> correctly), it should not be difficult for font developers to add
>> Assamese support.  Do you have any plan to do so, or are there any
>> such fonts?

> Could you be more specific? As far as I know, the codepoints needed for 
> Assamese are 09F0 and 09F1, which are present in both Mukti and Likhan. 

You are right.

> Are you looking for ligatures involving these characters? If so, it's 
> unlikely that we'll be able to help, since we (at least I) have no idea 
> how they form ligatures. (We'll be happy to help someone who does.)

Yes, I am looking for an Opentype font that has correct tables for
Assamese ligatures.  Currently we have to use the Hasant form instead
of ligatures for those characters.  Does anybody know a person or an
organisation we should contact for that matter?

Best regards,

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TAKAHASHI Naoto
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