[Bug 1013183] [ml_IN] Samvruthokaram ligature is wrong

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--- Comment #7 from Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Santhosh Thottingal from comment #5)
> Correcting some facts:
> 
> (In reply to Shriramana Sharma from comment #4)
> > probably because nobody writes Samvruthokaram nowadays.
> 
> I myself use it in daily use and I know a number of people using it. Bill
> boards in street using this is not rare. Agreed the usage is minimal.

I am aware that the Samvruthokaram *sound* occurs regularly as part of
Malayalam. I was however given to know that the VS-U + Chandrakala form of
*writing* the Samvruthokaram is rare. In any case, the question is whether this
samvruthokaram ligature enjoys attestation/acceptance among the widespread
Malayali scholarly/otherwise community or not.

> Lohit Malayalam is not the system default font for ml in any distros I know.
> It is packaged in most of the distros.

OK on this apparently I was wrong.

(In reply to Pravin Satpute from comment #6)
> But i think point is not whether Lohit is default or not. Lohit fonts
> project always tried to be compliant with the standards so other fonts
> (upcoming) projects can refer it and be assure that they are compliant with
> standards. (Unicode compliance, Script behaviour compliance)

Exactly. None of these standards seem to give attestation for this.

> But same time as this decision was done by community with proper discussion,
> it definitely has weight and i will recommend to have some more debate
> openly and push it as in script reforms may be.

I beg to differ. It was the decision/invention of a few people who were
attending the FOSS.in conference in 2008. It was not the decision of Kerala
Govt or Malayalam language academia or Malayali public. So it's entirely
different.

If I talk to some of my technically knowledgeable friends and invent a new
Tamil ligature for J-NYA will you publish it as part of Lohit Tamil? Certainly
not, because it is not accepted as part of recognized Tamil script. Likewise
this should be treated and the ligature removed forthwith, IMO. Those who like
to have the ligature for their private preference/usage can always have a
forked version of Lohit Malayalam on their computer.

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