[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 11419] New: Request for Khmer characters U+1780-17DD, 17E0-17E9, 17F0-17F9

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11419

           Summary: Request for Khmer characters U+1780-17DD, 17E0-17E9,
                    17F0-17F9
           Product: DejaVu
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: General
        AssignedTo: dejavu-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: rsperberg at gmail.com


A number of Khmer fonts have been designed and released by the Khmer Software
Initiative (khmeros.info).

They're available at 
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=133361&package_id=163973&release_id=475966

The DejaVu Sans Basic Latin characters are more readable than those in the
KhmerOS fonts. And DejaVu fonts contain IPA phonetic characters that KhmerOS
fonts lack.

Thus it is currently impossible to put English, Khmer and pronunciations in the
same text to create a dictionary, except in two word-processing programs that
can handle Khmer ZWSP _and_ use more than one font in the same text.

Would it be possible to adapt one of the KhmerOS fonts (or more than one of
them, for Sans, Serif and Mono) and provide Khmer characters for the 114
characters?

Until more programs are capable of displaying different Unicode sections with
different fonts -- a la Firefox -- it is of critical importance to get all the
characters into a single font.

The Khmer consonants, vowels and punctuation are U+1780 - U+17DD. The digits
0-9 are U+17E0 - U+17E9. And the numeric symbols for divination lore are U+17F0
- U+17F9.

Thank you.

Roger Sperberg

PS: I'm not equipped to do this work myself, or I would volunteer to assist in
it. From the other perspective, I have requested the KhmerOS group to add the
missing IPA characters too.

PPS: I see bug 8420 concerns two Khmer characters, U+17D9 and U+17DA


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