Re: Fwd: Re: Indic layout work

It would be best to refer to this document as "Indian text layout
requirements", rather than "Indic text layout requirements" since Indic has
a much broader connotation and script coverage than this document aims at.

On 7 July 2015 at 09:39, Gihan Dias <gihan@cse.mrt.ac.lk> wrote:

> On 15/07/06 3:53 PM, Somnath Chandra wrote:
>
>>
>> The feedback on Indic layout WD  and modified versions were already sent
>> the Richard twice through 2 mails dated Apr 27 and May 20, 2015. This was
>> resent on June 29, 2015.
>>
>>  I'm sorry to see that this document ignores indic languages other than
> those used in India, and that none of the contributors are from outside
> India.
>
> The issues in other Indic scripts (such as Sinhala in Sri Lanka) are
> similar, and scripts such as Hindi, Bengali and Tamil are used in other
> countries.
>
> Ignoring them in this document is not helpful.
>
> Gihan
>
>


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