[HarfBuzz] New Indic standard?

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:01 AM, G Karunakar<indlinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Ed Trager<ed.trager at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> What does such a test suite involve? In the past, we have prepared
>>> a list of base characters, plus allowed conjuncts (along with
>>> example words) for some Indic languages in ICU. Along with these,
>>> we have prepared screenshots of the expected rendering, which can
>>> be compared to Harfbuzz rendering. Does that suffice?
>>>
>>
>> Is the pre-existing list of base characters plus allowed conjucts that
>> you prepared for ICU testing comprehensive?
>>
>> If not comprehensive, can you provide a ballpark percentage of how
>> much has been covered or not?
>>
>> Does it cover ALL the "major" languages commonly written using one of
>> the Indic scripts, or just some of them?
>>
>> Are there annotations indicating, for example, conjuncts that are
>> specifically allowed for some languages (say, perhaps classical
>> Sanskrit) but not allowed or deprecated or considered old-fashioned
>> etc. for some other languages (say, Modern Hindi)?
>>
>> Ideally we need to know more details about what you or anyone else has
>> available before the question of "sufficiency" can be settled ...
>>
>> Where is the URL for the ICU test suite that you mention?  I would
>> like to look at that, as I am sure others would too.  Having a test
>> suite that is publically available would be a great first step.
>> Setting up such a resource so that people could contribute / edit /
>> add additional test cases would be a great next step.
>>
>
> Perhaps not for ICU, but UTF-8 text samples have be made for some languages..
> Atleast the ones I can immediately point to
>

http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~deepayan/Bengali/FreeBangTemplate/juktolist.txt
is for Bengali. We have been successfully using this for font
development, etc (it needs minor changes for newer versions of
Unicode).

Thanks,
Sayamindu



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Sayamindu Dasgupta
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