Bengali fonts

Hello,

I can't thank you enough for the brilliance of your work.
This extension is
a milestone towards the eventual adoption of Unicode for
display of content
in Indic languages without dependence on platform and in a
standardized
format that enables searching and archiving of news data.

In the present context due to various factors like
governmental
policy-making apathy, the misfortune of domination by a
single vendor for
common computing needs that disregarded, till recently, the
requirement of
software in Indic languages, and the regressive attitude
adopted by
content-producers of vernacular languages who relied on
dynamic fonts.

The Padma extension already makes it possible to view the
Bengali language
news web-sites Anandabazar Patrika and Bartaman Patrika. The
pages are
rendered mostly correct except for some errors with
rendering of vowels like
"aa"(Bartaman), short "i"(Anandabazar),
placement of "e"(Bartaman) and ou,
placement of chandrabindu. I believe these can be rectified
in future
versions.

As demonstrated by your excellent coverage of South Indian
and other Indic
scripts, I would also like to see such development work is
extended to
Bengali as well. In this context I have made a list of the
the Bengali
newspapers web-sites with the widest circulation/popularity
and the dynamic
fonts they use.

I have attached a zip file that includes the font files in
the respective
folders named after the newspapers using them.

The most popular sites and the used dynamic fonts are -

For pouplar West-Bengal Bengali newspapers -
1> DATAN_.ttf - Aajkal
2> Shree550.ttf - Uttar Banga Sambad

1> prothoma.ttf and bngsalpn.ttf - Prothom Alo
2> TONNBM__.ttf - Jaijaidin, The Daily Amadershomoy, The
Daily Dinkal,
Manabzamin, bond Bangla
3> sutom.ttf - The Daily Ittefaq, The Daily Bhorer Kagoj,
The Daily Jugantor
4> Boishkhi.ttf - Daily Naya Diganta and The Daily Amader
Sangram

5> samakal_.ttf - Shamokal
6> itxbeng.ttf - Parabaas
7> falgun.ttf - Vinnomot
8> alihsan.ttf - Al-Ihsan
The above papers are most popular in Bangladesh

It is my request that the Bengali fonts for the West-Bengal
newspapers and
at least the first four fonts of the most widely read
Bangladeshi
news-papers are made available through Padma.

Looking forward to further development of this great piece
of work.

Best wishes,

Soham Chatterjee
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Soham,
Since Bengali is already supported in Padma, it is easy to
add support for
Bengali fonts by doing a mapping of characters.  It would be
better if
someone who knows the language does the mapping.  Nagarjuna
has already have
posted basic detail about how to add new mappings in padma.
http://mozdev.org/pipermail/padma/2006-February/00004
9.html

Also checkout existing Bengali fonts for examples
http://www.mozdev.org/source/browse/padm
a/src/content/encodings/Bengali/

You can email the group if you have any questions.

Thanks
Saravana

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 4:29 AM, সোহম
চ্যাটার্জী <soham.chatterjeegmail.com
> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I can't thank you enough for the brilliance of your
work. This extension is
> a milestone towards the eventual adoption of Unicode
for display of content
> in Indic languages without dependence on platform and
in a standardized
> format that enables searching and archiving of news
data.
>
> In the present context due to various factors like
governmental
> policy-making apathy, the misfortune of domination by a
single vendor for
> common computing needs that disregarded, till recently,
the requirement of
> software in Indic languages, and the regressive
attitude adopted by
> content-producers of vernacular languages who relied on
dynamic fonts.
>
> The Padma extension already makes it possible to view
the Bengali language
> news web-sites Anandabazar Patrika and Bartaman
Patrika. The pages are
> rendered mostly correct except for some errors with
rendering of vowels
> like
> "aa"(Bartaman), short
"i"(Anandabazar), placement of
"e"(Bartaman) and ou,
> placement of chandrabindu. I believe these can be
rectified in future
> versions.
>
> As demonstrated by your excellent coverage of South
Indian and other Indic
> scripts, I would also like to see such development work
is extended to
> Bengali as well. In this context I have made a list of
the the Bengali
> newspapers web-sites with the widest
circulation/popularity and the dynamic
> fonts they use.
>
> I have attached a zip file that includes the font files
in the respective
> folders named after the newspapers using them.
>
> The most popular sites and the used dynamic fonts are -
>
> For pouplar West-Bengal Bengali newspapers -
> 1> DATAN_.ttf - Aajkal
> 2> Shree550.ttf - Uttar Banga Sambad
>
> 1> prothoma.ttf and bngsalpn.ttf - Prothom Alo
> 2> TONNBM__.ttf - Jaijaidin, The Daily Amadershomoy,
The Daily Dinkal,
> Manabzamin, bond Bangla
> 3> sutom.ttf - The Daily Ittefaq, The Daily Bhorer
Kagoj, The Daily
> Jugantor
> 4> Boishkhi.ttf - Daily Naya Diganta and The Daily
Amader Sangram
>
> 5> samakal_.ttf - Shamokal
> 6> itxbeng.ttf - Parabaas
> 7> falgun.ttf - Vinnomot
> 8> alihsan.ttf - Al-Ihsan
> The above papers are most popular in Bangladesh
>
> It is my request that the Bengali fonts for the
West-Bengal newspapers and
> at least the first four fonts of the most widely read
Bangladeshi
> news-papers are made available through Padma.
>
> Looking forward to further development of this great
piece of work.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Soham Chatterjee
> --
> সোহম
>
>
>
>
> --
> সোহম
>
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