Devanagari vowels - Alternative forms.

[Patrick Chew via Indic]

As it turns out, SIL's Anapurna font shows both sets of variants in a
single font: https://software.sil.org/annapurna/, c.f.
http://software.sil.org/downloads/r/annapurna/AnnapurnaSIL-features.pdf

These differences are accessible only via applications that are smart
feature capable, e.g. LibreOffice.

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Patrick Chew <patrick.chew at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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