Devanagari vowels - Alternative forms.

[Patrick Chew via Indic]

Chandas and Uttara are full fonts that ought to show the differences... not
a single font, however...

http://www.sanskritweb.net/cakram/

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 10:49 AM, Anish V via Indic <indic at unicode.org>
wrote:

> Thank you for the clarification.
> Is there any font supporting this variant format?
>
> On Dec 13, 2017 00:15, "Anshuman Pandey" <pandey at umich.edu> wrote:
>
>> Such variants generally do not appear concurrently as they are part of
>> stylistic sets associated with scribal and, eventually, print traditions.
>> Apart from अ, there are variants for letters such as झ, भ, etc, and
>> conjuncts such as क्ष, ज्ञ, as well as digits, eg. ८, ९. These should be
>> handled typographically. But, it is unfortunate that a user can’t
>> specifically choose which alternate set they’d like.
>>
>> All my best,
>> Anshuman
>>
>>
>> On Dec 12, 2017, at 12:29 PM, Kiran Kumar Chava via Indic <
>> indic at unicode.org> wrote:
>>
>> Isn't it simply different font?
>> Why can not a different font handle this?
>> Are both used simultaneously in a single sentence?
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 8:51 AM, Anish V via Indic <indic at unicode.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>    Is there any current proposal to encode alternate forms of Devanagari
>>> vowels? I don't think they are archaic forms, we can see some in post
>>> independence Indian coins also. The images of scripts and coins are
>>> attached for reference.
>>>
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