Re: Tamil fonts

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>
> Cc: समीर सिंह Sameer Singh
>  <lumarzeli30@gmail.com>,  wl@gnu.org,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2022 18:44:44 +0530
> 
> > (Personally, I find it strange that a Tamil font doesn't support the
> > Supplement block, and even more strange that Google created a separate
> > font instead of extending an existing one.  Perhaps this is because
> > the Tamil Supplement block is relatively new.)
> 
> Probably because most of the characters added are historic, for a lack
> of a better word.  I have never seen them used in practise and I doubt
> most Tamil speakers know about them either: maybe if you were old, you
> might have used it and/or heard about it [1].  Considering this, I don't
> think most font maintainers/creators would have the supplement
> characters in high priority list.

Thanks, I think this makes treating them as a separate setting in the
fontset even more reasonable.

> Also, these characters were added in Unicode 12.0.

Yes, thus "relatively new" above.