[smc-discuss] Remove Latin glyphs from fonts?

[Rajeesh K Nambiar]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 6:48 PM, santhosh.thottingal at gmail.com
<santhosh.thottingal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Now a days, all rendering systems are capable of using fallback fonts
> for missing glyphs. Eg: Tamil inside Malayalam text, where applied font
> is Meera.
>
> The only combination where this fallback did not work AFAIK is windows
> XP+IE 6.
>
> I think with mlm2 branch of fonts we can remove the latin glyphs in our
> fonts.
>
> Comments?

I guess I agree in principle. Question is - do we make it more
difficult to any software system if basic latin is removed - TeX,
others?

>
> Thanks
> Santhosh


-- 
Cheers,
Rajeesh