@DomesticExtremis: Usually, SIL fonts are the way to go, but it seems for Bengali, other sites offer more free fonts. In my test file, I embedded the
Mukti Narrow font, which has been released under the GPL license.
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Originally Posted by Jellby
As an Indic script, I guess it uses extensive ligature and glyph substitution, which are encoded in the font files themselves.
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The problem with Indic languages is that most of them have some vowel signs that logically follow the the base letter but need to be displayed left of it (e.g.
Bengali vowel I); in Bengali some of these vowels signs apparently also change their shape.
You can easily see these rendering issues if you compare how both ADE and Webkit render the first random heading that I included in the test file. The ADE version is much longer, because ADE cannot handle vowel placement and shaping correctly.