[HarfBuzz] Indic Testing Team

[Shriramana Sharma]

[Note: My "reply all" to Harshula's mail was sent to the moderator as 
there were too many recipients. I request everyone to use "reply to 
list". Anyone who is going to be involved in this matter but is not on 
the list should be on the list, so there's no need to separately cc 
them, right?]

On 2011-Jun-10 12:45, Harshula wrote:
> [Following on from Shriramana's suggestion, adding additional South
> Asian scripts from http://www.unicode.org/charts/]

Great! I was *just half an hour ago* thinking we should not ignore the 
minority scripts.

I add myself to Brahmi and Kaithi -- no worries about overload since we 
are not going to concentrate on these extinct scripts at the outset (I 
presume?).

Bengali :
Brahmi : S Sharma
Devanagari: Pravin S, G Karunakar, Parag
Gujarati :
Gurumukhi (Punjabi) : A S Alam
Kaithi : S Sharma
Kannada : S Sharma
Kharoshthi :
Lepcha :
Limbu :
Malayalam : Santhosh Thottingal
Meetei Mayek :
Ol Chiki :
Oriya :
Saurashtra :
Sinhala : Harshula ( harshula at gmail.com)
Syloti Nagri :
Tamil : Mugunth (mugunth at gmail.com), S Sharma
Telugu : S Sharma
Thaana :
Vedic: S Sharma

Note on my involvements:

[I am not worrying about over-involvement since apart from my mother 
tongue/script Tamil I can handle Kannada and Telugu reasonably easily 
and other scripts I choose are minority and can be done one by one.]

Brahmi: Will collect information on this from epigraphist friends I 
have. I am also in contact with the authors of the Brahmi Unicode proposal.

Kaithi: It's largely like Gujarati, and I can try to get more info from 
Anshuman Pandey who proposed Kaithi for Unicode, 
http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n3389.pdf with whom I am in 
intermittent contact.

Vedic: Mostly it will not be a problem as I am a Vedic scholar myself, 
but for some of the rarer Vedic characters, I am in contact with one of 
the principal authors of the Vedic Extensions proposal, Dr Peter Scharf 
of Brown University of USA.

Other minority scripts, notably Sharada, Maithili and Modi, will be 
added in the shortly to be added courtesy Anshuman Pandey's huge efforts 
(http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pandey/) -- of which I am personally 
interested in Sharada. Maithili (Tirhuta) is largely like Bengali but 
with important differences. Modi is largely like Devanagari. After they 
are added, I hope they can be handled like Kaithi above, with help from 
Anshuman when needed.

-- 
Shriramana Sharma