Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Free UCS outline font

[Primoz P. <pri...@bi...>]

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Hello,

On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Guntupalli Karunakar wrote:

> > As a first question, I would like to ask whether there is any
> > agreement on the sets of ligatures needed to render particular Indic
> > scripts, ...
>  Not all  scripts have officially standardized glyph set, except for
> Tamil & Kannada.

Thank you. I just learned that the Kannada standard set is available on
the Karnataka Directorate of Information Technology site. Do you have any
pointers to the Tamil specifications?

> >   http://www.indlinux.org/fonts/
>   This font was worked keeping in mind the above categories, we
> started from minimal to practical and in future to a maximal . So
> Currently it satisfies the first two. This font will be soon released
> under GNU GPL (now that it has finally got a sponsor :-) .

Congratulations!

> > What is the situation with other Indic scripts?
>  There are the Bharatbhasha shusha set of fonts which take the minimal
> approach , available at http://www.bharatbhasha.org.in/ They cater to
> the scripts - Devanagari (Hindi & Marathi), Gurmukhi, Bengali,
> Gujarati.

That's a new URL, thank you. The last I know was
http://www.bharabhasha.net/, and seemed to be neglected.

>  For Kannada, an organisation Kannada Ganaka Parishat (
> www.ganakaparishat.org ) has done glyph standardisation (contact
> person: Dr U B Pavanaja < pav...@vi... > )

I believe this was a very wise and important step.

>  For Tamil , A glyph standard called TSCII has already been evolved.
>   http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5180/tnet99.html
>  http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5180/tscii.html

Thank you for the link!

>  For Telugu there is no standard yet but a GPLed font is available at
> (http://chaitanya.bhaavana.net/fonts/). It has a rich set of glyphs,
> and can cater to first 2 categories. I am making a opentype version of
> it.

Thank you, I've found this font already, but as I cannot read Telugu,
wasn't able to devise which glyphs represent which ligatures.

Thank you very much,

Primoz

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