From: Ambarish Sridharanarayanan (unicode@ambarish.ksharanam.net)
Date: Thu Jun 07 2007 - 01:23:07 CDT
I went ahead and installed the font. Here's what I found:
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:
> An acquaintance of mine received some Hindi text that was translated.
> The translator was apparently someone who had never heard of Unicode
> since the font he/she used is Kurti Dev 010 (krdv010.ttf -
> http://www.deoria.nic.in/h_font/h_font1.htm), which is a font that's
> mapped to the ASCII range for Devanagari.
>
> So I set out using BabelPad to construct a proper UTF-8 string for my
> acquaintance. I have everything switched over, except for 2
> characters that kind of confuse me.
>
> The font maps the first to:
>
> "V~zh
>
> Which I traced to:
>
> " = 0937 (ssa) 094d (virama)
> V = 091f (tta)
> ~ = 094d (virama)
> z = is a mystery to me, it looks like small slash cutting half-way
> through the curve of tta
> h = 0940 (ii)
>
> I tried to construct this as 0937 + 094d + 091f + 094d + ZWJ + 0940
> and within BabelPad this looks good. Firefox, however, doesn't like
> it. Neither does Opera. Internet Explorer, however, shows it as I
> expected it. Am I composing this correctly? And what could that
> 'slash'-like glyph be? I cannot find any decent mapping of it.
It's a ligated form of 0930 after a half-consonant (in this case
091f+094d). Try typing in 091f+094d+0930 and you should see the same
combined glyph.
> The second maps to:
>
> Kk
>
> Which I traced to:
>
> K = no idea, it looks like 0907 (i), but without the connecting part
> to the top line, but instead connecting to the right to a 093e (aa)
> k = 093e (aa)
As Mark Shoulson suspected, this is another ligature, this time
091c+094d+091e.
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