[Bug 1078661] Deprecate the usage of U+0BB8 U+0BCD U+0BB0 U+0BC0 for SRII per latest unicode standard

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Sun Apr 6 05:56:29 UTC 2014


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1078661

Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa at gmail.com> ---
I have always been in favour of following the standard over keeping sticking to
legacy data. If fonts continue to display non-standard sequences like this,
then as Srikanth says the interoperability purpose of the standard is lost.

Also consider Arabic/Urdu-based names like tasrīn. In Tamil script they should
be written as தஸ்‌ரீன் (தஸ்.ரீன் without the dot) but with the current
behaviour they are displayed identical to தஶ்ரீன் whereas ஶ்ரீ is only ever
found in Sanskrit-based names. (On Firefox 28 on my Kubuntu Saucy system I am
able to prevent the ligature by using ZWNJ but that should not be required for
normal usage.)

Previously (bug 1016984 and bug 1016989) the maintainers have refused to remove
old sequences citing legacy use, but in this case such refusal would mean such
Arabic-based names cannot be written naturally in Tamil script without using
ZWNJ and that affects usability.

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