Re: new GPL fonts for indic languages

[Guntupalli Karunakar <karunakar freedomink org>]

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 15:01:39 +0530
Joshua N Pritikin <jpritikin pobox com> 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 devanagari
> then I get empty squares.  Is this a known bug in the fonts?
> 

Those fonts are just TTF's most of them  (devanagari, tamil, bengali,
malayalam, gujarati) have been converted to opentype by adding the
needed tables. all these opentype fonts are avialable in the
indlinux-hindi package, available at
http://www.indlinux.org/downloads/

Regards,
Karunakar

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