
a) Letters: Independent vowels, consonants and aytham.

The Unicode Standard (Unicode) encodes the following groups of characters²: In addition, there are grantha letters that are used to write words of non-Tamil origin. The Tamil script, like all other Indic scripts, is a syllabic script. The paper below will be useful to understand the basic elements of AAT shaping.īuilding Tamil Unicode Fonts for Mac OS X However, AAT is still actively supported. OpenType implementation in macOS today is very good, especially with complex script support. Mac OS X, as it was called at that time, did not support Open Type shaping until Lion (10.7).


Of course, there are even more optimizations that could be done like Subsetting in font files, font face observer, and using service workers to cache the font files but those are fairly advanced concepts, let us know if you are interested in those.I presented the paper below at the 8th Tamil Internet Conference held in Koeln, Germany in 2009. */ url ( '/fonts/shruthi-hassan.eot?#iefix' ) format ( 'embedded-opentype' ), url ( '/fonts/shruthi-hassan.woff2' ) format ( 'woff2' ), url ( '/fonts/shruthi-hassan.woff' ) format ( 'woff' ), url ( '/fonts/shruthi-hassan.ttf' ) format ( 'truetype' ) font-weight : normal font-style : normal font-display : swap unicode-range : U + 0964-0965, U + 0B82-0BFA, U + 200C-200D, U + 20B9, U + 25CC Font-family : 'Shruthi Hassan' src : url ( '/fonts/shruthi-hassan.eot' ) src : local ( 'Shruthi Hassan' ), local ( 'Shruthi-Hassan' ), /* See if the font is already installed in the users device.
