Re: Pango Telugu script support

[Guntupalli Karunakar <karunakar freedomink org>]

On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:21:45 -0500 (EST)
Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> wrote:

> 
> sada siva rao gujjarlapudi <sadag39 yahoo com> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >    Is anyone working on Telugu script support in
> > Pango.
> > I can help you in this.
> 
> It supposedly works as of Pango-1.2. The two things that
> need doing are:
> 
>  1) Testing (and debugging any problems found)
> 
 With RH 8 stock pango, nothing is working, will check with latest
releases.

>  2) Adding the necessary OpenType tables to the 
>     Telugu free fonts:
> 
>       http://gnu.org.in/software/software.html
>       http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otfntdev/teluguot/default.htm
> 
>     (Somebody may already be working on this ... consult with
>     your local experts.)
  Yep, they have already been properly encoded, work is on for rules &
positioning.
  There is another font Pothana2000.ttf avialable at
http://www.stotralahari.com/font.htm or 
http://www.kavya-nandanam.com/Pothana2k-95.exe . Not working with RH 8
stock pango.

Regards,
Karunakar

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