Support for precomposed latin letters for Sanskrit transliteration

Bug #1901360 reported by Valery Ushakov
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Bug Description

Latin letters with dot below are used to transliterate Sanskrit. In such transliterated texts it's the precomposed forms that are usually used, not "combining dot below". It would be very nice if Ubuntu fonts supported these letters. There is a lot of existing material that uses them.

Attached screenshot shows an XML-tagged mahāvyutpatti dictionary opened in emacs. The default font is Ubuntu Mono, but you can see how emacs has to use substitutions for the characters "with dot below".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Alphabet_of_Sanskrit_Transliteration

If I'm not missing anything, these precomposed characters should cover it.

1E0C;LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH DOT BELOW;Lu;0;L;0044 0323;;;;N;;;;1E0D;
1E0D;LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH DOT BELOW;Ll;0;L;0064 0323;;;;N;;;1E0C;;1E0C

1E24;LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H WITH DOT BELOW;Lu;0;L;0048 0323;;;;N;;;;1E25;
1E25;LATIN SMALL LETTER H WITH DOT BELOW;Ll;0;L;0068 0323;;;;N;;;1E24;;1E24

1E36;LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH DOT BELOW;Lu;0;L;004C 0323;;;;N;;;;1E37;
1E37;LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH DOT BELOW;Ll;0;L;006C 0323;;;;N;;;1E36;;1E36
1E38;LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH DOT BELOW AND MACRON;Lu;0;L;1E36 0304;;;;N;;;;1E39;
1E39;LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH DOT BELOW AND MACRON;Ll;0;L;1E37 0304;;;;N;;;1E38;;1E38

1E42;LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M WITH DOT BELOW;Lu;0;L;004D 0323;;;;N;;;;1E43;
1E43;LATIN SMALL LETTER M WITH DOT BELOW;Ll;0;L;006D 0323;;;;N;;;1E42;;1E42

1E44;LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH DOT ABOVE;Lu;0;L;004E 0307;;;;N;;;;1E45;
1E45;LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH DOT ABOVE;Ll;0;L;006E 0307;;;;N;;;1E44;;1E44

1E46;LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH DOT BELOW;Lu;0;L;004E 0323;;;;N;;;;1E47;
1E47;LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH DOT BELOW;Ll;0;L;006E 0323;;;;N;;;1E46;;1E46

1E5A;LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH DOT BELOW;Lu;0;L;0052 0323;;;;N;;;;1E5B;
1E5B;LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH DOT BELOW;Ll;0;L;0072 0323;;;;N;;;1E5A;;1E5A
1E5C;LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R WITH DOT BELOW AND MACRON;Lu;0;L;1E5A 0304;;;;N;;;;1E5D;
1E5D;LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH DOT BELOW AND MACRON;Ll;0;L;1E5B 0304;;;;N;;;1E5C;;1E5C

1E62;LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH DOT BELOW;Lu;0;L;0053 0323;;;;N;;;;1E63;
1E63;LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH DOT BELOW;Ll;0;L;0073 0323;;;;N;;;1E62;;1E62

1E6C;LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T WITH DOT BELOW;Lu;0;L;0054 0323;;;;N;;;;1E6D;
1E6D;LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH DOT BELOW;Ll;0;L;0074 0323;;;;N;;;1E6C;;1E6C

Revision history for this message
Valery Ushakov (v-ushakov) wrote :
affects: ubuntu-font-family → fonts-ubuntu (Ubuntu)
Changed in fonts-ubuntu (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
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