Hi all,
as far as I know the Devanagari fonts are either Sanskrit with all
conjuncts that cannot be switched off or Hindi without the Sanskrit
conjuncts. The only exception is FreeSerif which takes the Devanagari block
from the Velthuis Devanagari and models the two modes from the "good old"
Velth
On 6/18/2017 4:04 AM, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
as far as I know the Devanagari fonts are either Sanskrit with all
conjuncts that cannot be switched off or Hindi without the Sanskrit
conjuncts.
Do other languages that use Devanagari, like Gujarati, use the same
conjuncts as Hindi?
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Mike Max
Dear Zdenek, what you say is borne out by my tests, where the only font
showing a difference between Sanskrit and Hindi is the FreeSerif (the -kti-
conjunct).
(I used the Fontspec/Polyglossia system for language-switching.)
Best,
Dominik
On 18 June 2017 at 02:04, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> Hi all,
2017-06-18 17:01 GMT+02:00 Dominik Wujastyk :
> Dear Zdenek, what you say is borne out by my tests, where the only font
> showing a difference between Sanskrit and Hindi is the FreeSerif (the -kti-
> conjunct).
>
Not only kta but also nna and many other (try for instance प्रसन्नता)॰
>
> (I used
2017-06-18 16:38 GMT+02:00 Mike Maxwell :
> On 6/18/2017 4:04 AM, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>
>> as far as I know the Devanagari fonts are either Sanskrit with all
>> conjuncts that cannot be switched off or Hindi without the Sanskrit
>> conjuncts.
>>
>
> Do other languages that use Devanagari, like Gu
Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> If your browser is new enough, you should see the difference on my web page
> http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/freefont-devanagari/ where the same word is in
> the element, first with xml:lang="sa", then with xml:lang="hi".
Difference visible in Seamonkey 2.46 64-bit (Windows
Hi, 18/6/17
Marathi (script) is surely not a subset ofHindi (script) as, for example, there
are 2 letters "L" in Marathi and 1 only in Hindi.
Maybe some colleagues from India or Pakistan could help. I put 3 in copy.
IITB/CFILT is doing work on Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and mor
2017-06-19 1:16 GMT+02:00 Christian Boitet :
> Hi, 18/6/17
>
> Marathi (script) is surely not a subset ofHindi (script) as, for example,
> there are 2 letters "L" in Marathi and 1 only in Hindi.
>
You are right. I forgot Salman Khan who has this second L in his name.
>
> Maybe some colleagues fr
