That is quite a tenable answer.<br><br>Thanks for the detailed investigation.<br><br>It will be great if a table could be prepared detailing the various script allographs presented in Malayalam different unicode fonts and published on some pages..<br>
<br>-viswam<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/4/15 Hiran Venugopalan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hiran.v@gmail.com">hiran.v@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Technically saying its called as Script Allograph. Check the way small case a is written in g is written is San Serif and Georgia, you will understand it. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allograph" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allograph</a>. There are certain Latin type faces that provides multiple Allographs in one font itself depending upon with which glyph its gonna combine. The best example is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapfino" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapfino</a><br>
<br><div>Hope it solves the issue ;)</div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/4/15 Hiran Venugopalan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hiran.v@gmail.com" target="_blank">hiran.v@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
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Hi all, <div><br></div><div>I had talked about this to various designers including Hussain sir, Suresh ettan, Ravi Sangamithra and Hashim (who designed font for Malayala manorama and many other prints). Its just designers style or type style. Many of you havn't noticed this before. Like Shiju said there is two ways of writing ച്ച, പ്പ, ള്ള etc. (പ്പ മീരയിലേലും രഘുവിലേയും നോക്കുക) <div>
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<div dir="ltr">വ്യക്തിപരാമർശം ഒഴിവാക്കൂ.... സഭാനാഥന്‍ ഇല്ലെ?<br><br><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 204)">ഒരസരതിനുപോലും ഒനിലതികം എയുതുരൂപങളിലാത്ത,
കൂതസരങളൊനുമിലാത അസരമാല പ്രത്യസപെതുപോൾ ഒരുപസെ
ഏറ്റവും സതോസികുന ഒരാൾ അപ്തുൽ അസീസ് ആയിരികും</span><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/4/15 James Austin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wattakattujamesaustin@gmail.com" target="_blank">wattakattujamesaustin@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">ഒരക്ഷരത്തിനുപോലും ഒന്നിലധികം എഴുത്തുരൂപങ്ങളില്ലാത്ത, കൂട്ടക്ഷരങ്ങളൊന്നുമില്ലാത്ത അക്ഷരമാല പ്രത്യക്ഷപ്പെടുമ്പോൾ ഒരുപക്ഷെ ഏറ്റവും സന്തോഷിക്കുന്ന ഒരാൾ അബ്ദുൽ അസീസ് ആയിരിക്കും<div>
<div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/4/15 James Austin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wattakattujamesaustin@gmail.com" target="_blank">wattakattujamesaustin@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br>> എന്തിനാ ഇത്ര കൂടുതൽ അക്ഷരങ്ങൾ.<div>> ഭാഷ പ്രചരിക്കാൻ അതാണ് നല്ലതെന്ന് തോന്നുന്നു. </div></div>
<div><div>>അറിവ് സ്വന്തന്ത്രമാക്കാൻ ആഗ്രഹിക്കുന്നവർ അതാണ് ചെയ്യേണ്ടത്. </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>ഈ മൂന്ന് ആശയങ്ങളോട് പൂർണമായി യോജിക്കുന്നു</div><div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div>2011/4/14 Anish A <span dir="ltr"><<a href="http://aneesh.nl" target="_blank">aneesh.nl</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a>></span><br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011, ഏപ്രില്‍ 14 3:38 വൈകുന്നേരം ന്, Anish A <span dir="ltr"><<a href="http://aneesh.nl" target="_blank">aneesh.nl</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a>></span> എഴുതി:<div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011, ഏപ്രില്‍ 14 2:11 വൈകുന്നേരം ന്, Shiju Alex <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shijualexonline@gmail.com" target="_blank">shijualexonline@gmail.com</a>></span> എഴുതി:<div>
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<b>ച്ച</b> എന്ന അക്ഷരത്തിനു് ഒന്നിലേറെ എഴുത്ത് രൂപങ്ങൾ ഉള്ളത് പോലെ കരുതിയാൽ പൊരേ ഇതും.<br><br></blockquote></div></div>ഈ കുഴപ്പം അത്രയ്ക്ക് ലളിതമാണോ?<br></blockquote></div></div><br>എന്റെ അഭിപ്രായത്തില്‍ നമ്മുടെ അക്ഷരസഞ്ചയങ്ങളിലെല്ലാം(ഫോണ്ട്) ഏതെങ്കിലും ഒരു രീതിയിലാക്കുന്നതായിരിക്കും നല്ലത്.<div>
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