Very natural move. Assamese and Bengali fonts are not much different just 09F0 (ৰ) & 09F1 (ৱ) are extra in Assamese.
Frankly there is no need to create different fonts for these languages. Since we can have OT rules written for 09F0 (ৰ) & 09F1 in same fonts. Bengali user never type these characters and when assamese user will type these character he can get expected rendering.
But Assamese and Bengali communities has strong opinion regarding font names. Why should Assamese user use Bengali language fonts?
Even recently Assamese communities convinced Unicode to have "Assamese and Bengali" name to Unicode chart rather than only Bengali. There point was there is nothing like Bengali script in Assamese. Do update if i am missing something.
Lohit project respect user communities and will keep Assamese fonts separate. I can remove characters not used in Assamese from Bengali fonts and viceversa for Bengali but its very minor and i dont want one to install other font specifically for two characters.
One more reason to do this release quickly after Lohit Bengali is to make sure we can get testing from wider community.
Other release specific detail is available lohit archive email
Frankly there is no need to create different fonts for these languages. Since we can have OT rules written for 09F0 (ৰ) & 09F1 in same fonts. Bengali user never type these characters and when assamese user will type these character he can get expected rendering.
But Assamese and Bengali communities has strong opinion regarding font names. Why should Assamese user use Bengali language fonts?
Even recently Assamese communities convinced Unicode to have "Assamese and Bengali" name to Unicode chart rather than only Bengali. There point was there is nothing like Bengali script in Assamese. Do update if i am missing something.
Lohit project respect user communities and will keep Assamese fonts separate. I can remove characters not used in Assamese from Bengali fonts and viceversa for Bengali but its very minor and i dont want one to install other font specifically for two characters.
One more reason to do this release quickly after Lohit Bengali is to make sure we can get testing from wider community.
Other release specific detail is available lohit archive email
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