Re: new GPL fonts for indic languages

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 04:31, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> Raghindi works great:
> 
>   http://rohini.ncst.ernet.in/indix/download/font/raghu.ttf
> 
> I found some new GPL fonts here:
> 
>   http://fsf.org.in/software/software.html#akruti
> 
> However, these fonts appear to use different code points.  If I write
> something using Raghindi and then switch to Akruti devanaari then I
> get empty squares.  Is this a known bug in the fonts?

As I understand it, the Akruti fonts are currently just collections
of glyphs. They don't have the necessary OpenType tables to make them
work for rendering.

Regards,
						Owen