Gurmukhi 'ikonkaar'

[SundaraRaman R via Indic]

Hi,

In Unicode, EK ONKAR is already its own separate character, with code
0A74. It's a full and separate character at the Unicode level, not a
composite built from partial characters.

If it requires multiple key presses in your keyboard and you would
like to change that, you should try and find a different Input Engine
for Gurmukhi that has a single keypress for this character, or contact
the developers of your current input engine.

Similarly regarding the shape of the symbol, the shape displayed in
your computer depends on the font used for the display. So you could
try and find a different Gurmukhi font that displays the character the
way you wish, or similarly contact the designer of the font suggesting
a better design.

Regards,
Sundar



On 15/05/2018, p phul via Indic <indic at unicode.org> wrote:
> I am (as a sikh) concerned about the gurbani ‘ikonkaar’ symbol in Gurmukhi
> fonts – why is not possible to have a correct form of this symbol so
> important to us and was to our gurus –
> Attached file shows the correct shape (I am sure you are aware of it) – I am
> an architect engineer and a font maker – please let me know if I can
> contribute any thing towards getting this right –
> Unlike arabic script where characters have a (beginning, middle, end, and
> full character shapes), Gurmukhi letters , half letters and sound symbols
> always retain their shape and position – why then the we have to go thru
> multiple key presses to type a character –
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> I think a single key press should bring fourth the required character (in
> Gurmukhi, a combination of main letter + half letter + single or multiple
> sound symbols are required to spell a word and do not make a composite
> character) –
> We are wasting valuable keys by creating partial composite characters (these
> serve no purpose) –
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> I can type Gurmukhi exactly like English (that is each key press produces a
> character in its own correct position) –
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> I would appreciate some clarification/explanation on this –
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> regards
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