[smc-discuss] [Bug 1013183] Samvruthokaram ligature is wrong

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Santhosh Thottingal <santhosh.thottingal at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Santhosh Thottingal <santhosh.thottingal at gmail.com> ---
Correcting some facts:

(In reply to Shriramana Sharma from comment #4)
> probably because nobody writes Samvruthokaram nowadays.

I myself use it in daily use and I know a number of people using it. Bill
boards in street using this is not rare. Agreed the usage is minimal.

> Cibu and
> I were specifically discussing updates to the Unicode chapter on Malayalam
> discussing Samvruthokaram and because of that we have come across this
> problem.

Great. Hope you will discuss/share with communities.

> However, I do not understand on what basis you people considered it
> appropriate to introduce a new glyph in the font. Lohit fonts (which are
> used as system display fonts for Indic in most modern distros) are not the
> correct forum to bring about script reform or to invent new glyphs as part
> of a script. 

Lohit Malayalam is not the system default font for ml in any distros I know. It
is packaged in most of the distros.

I would leave it to the font maintainer to decide on this. I am ok with keeping
the glyph or removing it.

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