In continuation of my earlier post; and not to contradict what you say. John Hudson said on Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 04:11:03PM -0400,:
> PUA isn't necessary, and a font technology that handles elements of > complex script shaping by referencing PUAs isn't fundamentally any > different from one that uses glyph names or another identifier and > leaves the glyph unencoded. And if things were so simple, is Google such a dunderheaded organisation to ignore 3 score issues, plenty of complaints in the user community and more than 30% of Android's user base? That said, I do not think it is fear of OpenType IP that is keeping Google from implementing Indic support in Android. But of course, I fail to understand several things. ;-D -- Mahesh T. Pai || Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself.
