Hi All, I am going to release lohit-Devanagari today, presently we have Marathi, Hindi, Nepali, Maitreya, kashmiri (Dev), Sindhi (Dev) Devanagari script base fonts, and all are same, there was plan to add/modify respective font as per each language requirement but having a super set is no problem and we are following that presently But somehow while discussing more on it, i found it we can use only Devanagari font for all without affecting any language other requirement, and also it will be better for development and maintenance as well. In future if we found that two language with same script, requires different representation of same characters either we can use <LANG> tag of Open Type or We can split font that time as per requirement so to the best of my knowledge there is no problem in using same Devanagari script covering all Unicode characters for all languages using Devanagari script. comment/suggestions are welcome

2010/1/30 Rahul Bhalerao <b.rahul.pm(a)gmail.com&gt; > > 2010/1/29 प्रविण सातपुते <pravin.d.s(a)gmail.com&gt; > > Hi All, >> I am going to release lohit-Devanagari today, >> presently we have Marathi, Hindi, Nepali, Maitreya, kashmiri (Dev), >> Sindhi (Dev) Devanagari script base fonts, and all are same, there was plan >> to add/modify respective font as per each language requirement but having a >> super set is no problem and we are following that presently >> But somehow while discussing more on it, i found it we can use only >> Devanagari font for all without affecting any language other requirement, >> and also it will be better for development and maintenance as well. >> In future if we found that two language with same script, requires >> different representation of same characters either we can use <LANG> tag of >> Open Type or We can split font that time as per requirement >> so to the best of my knowledge there is no problem in using same >> Devanagari script covering all Unicode characters for all languages using >> Devanagari script. >> comment/suggestions are welcome >> >> > Before doing that, would you please check if <LANG> tag can be successfully > used to distinguish between Marathi and Hindi 'La (ल)', Marathi and Hindi > digit '8' on Gnome/KDE. Similarly there would be variations for some Nepali > and Kashmiri characters. If possible this would also help solving problems > related to traditional and typewriter script of Malayalam. > > need to test these things but presently there is no harm in going with lohit-devanagari since all its variant are same but yeah in future development we need to do this. we will try this things soon need to see which rendering engine presently support it may be it will be helpful pointer in development of harfbuzz as well

प्रविण सातपुते wrote:

Instead of releasing single font files for all those languages which use the same script in slightly different variations, you could release a single .ttc file which includes all those fonts, but saves space, since most of the glyphs are the same in all those languages. If you need help on how to do this, ask me.

Regarding the 'locl' feature: It may work well in up-to-date software, but it surely doesn't work in older installations.

On 2/3/2010 4:42 PM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > I'd be very surprised if more app designers had heard of ttc than of > locl. TTC is *very* uncommon in comparison to fonts that use locl. I'd > expect both to break in old (or even recent apps), but ttc support to > break more. > It is strange, your experience seems to be very different from mine.

To my knowledge, this is not that common. The only oddities I know are SimSun/SimHei (the default Chinese fonts for Win9x,Win2x) which contain a non-Latin PS font name; but their TTF name table have names for both Chinese and English.