<div class="gmail_quote">On 20 May 2011 15:23, neha gupta <<a href="mailto:nehagupta0304@gmail.com">nehagupta0304@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: neha gupta <<a href="mailto:nehagupta0304@gmail.com">nehagupta0304@gmail.com</a>> Date: Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:56 PM Subject: [fontconfig] single unicode and multiple glyphs To: <a href="mailto:fontconfig@fontconfig.org">fontconfig@fontconfig.org</a> Hi All I have a use case where I have a single font file which contains different glyphs for different languages for a single unicode. e.g. a.ttf Lang1 Lang2 Lang3 Unicode 0001 glyph1_1 glyph2_1 glyph3_1 0002 glyph1_2 glyph2_2 glyph3_2 Is it possible to acheive by fontconfig ? and which API ? Thanks to all in advance for guidance. </blockquote><div> Yes, This is possible using locl feature of open type, I have implement this in Lohit Devnagari fonts read <a href="http://pravin-s.blogspot.com/2010/12/looks-like-lohit-is-first-open-source.html">http://pravin-s.blogspot.com/2010/12/looks-like-lohit-is-first-open-source.html</a> Use case Nepali language has different shape for number 5 and 8 and few ligature as well. Required things are rendering engine should support locl feature of opentype font. Pango support it. Regards, Pravin S </div></div>