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bug #44389: Devanagari - ddhrya-like ligature issue

Submitter:  Hsing-yen He <hammerandsickle>
Submitted:  Sat 28 Feb 2015 05:31:57 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  character range Severity:  1 - Wish
Item Group:  character substitution issue Status:  Need info
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  Stevan_White
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Sat 28 Feb 2015 07:33:35 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Hi, Hsing-yen

I do not see this ligature being supported by the Velthuis font, on which FreeSerif is based.

You should understand that in Devanagari, outside half-forms of and a few required ligatures, ligatures are a matter of style which varies by language, time and region.  (Nonetheless, flame wars are fought.)

Thus, this is not a bug, rather, a wish.

I attach the set of Velthuis ligatures as rendered with FreeSerif on my system.

This does not include a ligature for द् + ध् + र् + य (four-consonant ligatures are very rare.)

There are standard documents published by TDIL for Hindi.  No way such a thing is normal for Hindi.  Maybe it appears sometimes in Sanskrit.

I do not claim any expertise on the matter, but I am cautious.

If we can find corroboration of this form, I'll be willing to consider it.

Cheers!


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Steve White <Stevan_White>
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Sat 28 Feb 2015 05:31:57 PM UTC, original submission:  

Hi Steve,

I found Red Hat Bugzilla have comments (Bug 670467) about ddhrya-like ligature, there have a suggestion that the shape of ligature like ddhrya (द् + ध् + र् + य) should like as follows:
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JanaSanskritSans_ddhrya.svg

I also found the shape is not coming like above in FreeSans/FreeSerif font.

Hsing-yen He <hammerandsickle>

 

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    2015-02-28 Stevan_White Attached File- Added Devanagari-Velthuis-ligs.pdf, #33212
        Categoryoverall font problem character range
        Severity3 - Normal 1 - Wish
        Item Groupglyph(s) incorrect character substitution issue
        StatusNone Need info
        Assigned toNone Stevan_White

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