Re: Tamil fonts (Was: bug#55745: [PATCH] Add support for the Hanifi Rohingya script)

["समीर सिंह Sameer Singh" <lumarzeli30@gmail.com>]

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> First, you omitted the OTF features we request for Tamil -- aren't
> they needed for the Supplement block? if not, why not?
>

Tamil supplement does not need the akhn OTF feature because it does not
form any conjuncts, they are mostly accounting or agricultural symbols.

Next, we should consider what the main supported platforms do with
> this block -- don't they come with other fonts configured for this
> block? if they do, we should at least use 'append', not 'prepend'.
>

There does not seem to be any font in MS windows which supports these
characters.
I am not sure about MacOS.
but still I will use append.

And finally, is the license of Noto Sans Tamil Supplement free enough
> for us to include it in our sources?
>

The Noto Sans Tamil Supplement font file is under the SIL Open Font License
v1.1
The Noto Color Emoji font is also under the same license and is referenced
in the Emacs source code.


On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 11:56 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2022 08:38:32 +0300
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> > Cc: wl@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >
> > And finally, is the license of Noto Sans Tamil Supplement free enough
> > for us to include it in our sources?
>          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> I meant "to include its reference", of course, not the font itself.
>

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