[Neobrahmigp] Query on confusable composite characters

Bal Krishna Bal bal at ku.edu.np
Mon Jul 24 04:56:45 UTC 2017


Thanks Prof. Udaya.
Regards,
Bal Krishna

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Bal Krishna Bal,PhD
Assistant Professor
Lead Researcher - Information and Language Processing Research Lab
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Kathmandu, University
Dhulikhel, Kavre
Nepal
Homepage: http://ku.edu.np/cse/faculty/bal

On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Udaya Narayana Singh via Neobrahmigp <
neobrahmigp at icann.org> wrote:

> Although Mangal is widely used especially on the UNICODE-driven platforms
> (and not as in True Type texts), Arial Unicode or others are also equally
> popular, and hence any chance of confusion or the slightest possibility of
> phishing should be dealt with. Once we set up rules to disambiguate these
> instances, it would apply across fonts for Domain Name Registration.
>
> Regards,
>
> Professor Udaya Narayana Singh
> Chair-Professor & Head, ACLiS
> Amity Centre for Linguistic Studies (ACLiS)
> Amity University Haryana, Gurgaon
> Pachgaon, Manesar PIN 122431
> Cell: +91-98301-32234 <+91%2098301%2032234> & 94340-50218
>
> Formerly, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan &
> Former Director, Central Inst of Indian Languages (CIIL)
> Home-page www.udayanarayana.com
>
>
>
>
> On Monday 24 July 2017, 6:43:48 AM IST, Bal Krishna Bal <bkbal at ltk.org.np>
> wrote:
>
>
> Hello Akshat and the NBGP members,
> In our recent discussions on confusable composite characters, we have
> noticed that the confusion is only prominent across certain fonts and not
> with all universally. I have attached a few samples  where the strings and
> the respective fonts are highlighted in yellow. The question is - are we
> considering font specific issues here? Are there any fonts being considered
> to be used as default ones to display Devanagari text on the browser's
> address bar?
> Regards,
> Bal Krishna
>
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