Dear All,
Character spacing in Indian Languages is used . In some of the languages like Bengali it is more prevalent . In Hindi , which is the largest speaking language in India the character spacing is sometimes used. Also it is used for decorative style of writing such as Newspaper Column , banner etc.
Some of the examples are attached [Pl see images] Similar examples could be found other South Indian Languages.
W3C India and language experts in India are trying to find out unified solution to this problem by defining a logic for formation of Indic syllables. The draft definition is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-3/#letter-spacing-property(http://www.w3cindia.in/Indic_Aksara.html#comp">http://www.w3cindia.in/Indic_Aksara.html#comp [Section 5 &6]
We have also submitted error tracking at Bugzilla , which require thorough testing and evaluation. We are also producing generalized Indian Languages script behaviour .
We also need to study the Unicode Line Breaking (UAX #14) and Text-Segmentation (UAX#29) algorithms , which may require some modifications to suit the Indian Languages requirements.
With regards,
Somnath
On 12/06/13 11:25 PM, Richard Ishida wrote:
> Dear Indic layout taskforce,
>
> CSS3 Text defines a letter-spacing property at Dr. Somnath Chandra
> Scientist-E
> Dept. of Electronics & Information Technology
> Ministry of Communications & Information Technology
> Govt. of India
> Tel:+91-11-24364744,24301856
> Fax: +91-11-24363099
> e-mail :schandra@mit.gov.in
