Devanagari vowels - Alternative forms.

[Anshuman Pandey via Indic]

The Chandas and Uttara fonts support these ‘southern’ and ‘northern’ styles:

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

All my best,
Anshuman


> On Dec 12, 2017, at 12:49 PM, Anish V <anish.1234.mail at gmail.com> 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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