[Lohit-devel-list] [Bug 829143] [ta_IN] Fix Rendering of Letter RA, RI, RII per GoTN standards

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=829143

--- Comment #6 from Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa at gmail.com> ---
Hey Srikanth, thanks for taking this in a sporting manner! You are right that
probably in the end it is only needed for you and I to have consensus as far as
this bug is concerned, but IMO I think it would be useful to take some "census"
:-) as to what the community actually thinks rather than what a few Govt
bureaucrats think!? As I already pointed out, even fonts released by the TN
Govt are having the actual traditional style glyphs. So they themselves are not
behaving consistently with their own order.

But as you rightly said, whoever is following it or not is irrelevant, and the
question is whether it would be good for Lohit to support this new orthography
in the interests of readability for the community.

I wonder what is a good way to reach out to the actual Tamil users among the
OSS community... Please give some time on this and don't hurriedly close it
either way. I'll discuss with some other friends whether we can reach out to at
least certain representative (?) sections of the Tamil computing community.

P.S.: A solution would be to make Lohit Tamil take "new" shapes of ர (i.e. as
per TN Govt requirements) whereas to leave Lohit Tamil Classical with "old"
shapes. Pravin, what do you think of that?

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