Re: Non-BDF Devanagari Support in Pango

[Mark Leisher <mleisher crl nmsu edu>]

    Chookij> Does this approach mean that Pango is still running in OTF
    Chookij> support for hindi, not TTF support for hindi, right ?

Yes, this would mean assuming that all Devanagari OTF fonts have Hindi
rendering included and that Pango would only work with OTF fonts.

As you are no doubt well aware, there are lots of TTF Devanagari fonts out
there, most of which have different sets of glyphs.  Each of these will need a
rendering program built for them before they can be effectively used.

I haven't really paid much attention to discussions about this recently, but I
believe both Owen and Robert are very aware of the situation and Pango will
eventually have at least some mechanism for adding TTF (and bitmap) fonts, if
one is not already in there.
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