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

[Arun S. <ar...@sh...>]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 07:14:25PM +0100, Primoz Peterlin wrote:
> 
> For those without the Tunga font, it would help a lot if the table would
> also be available as bitmap image.
> 

Actually, I tried saving it as PDF before I mailed it out, but it
failed. When I open the PDF, it says "can't find the Tunga font".
I tried to make the PDF writer embed the font in the PDF, without much
success. Anyone on this list know how to do it ?

> But I believe that not all combinations really appear in live
> written language, or do they?

I can certainly say that characters like U+919 and U+91E (Dev) and their
equivalents in Kannada are extremely rare in the written language.

If we had large amounts of representative unicode text available in
Indian languages, we could've done a frequency analysis to figure out
which ones were more common.

I'll try to write something up later today. While we're on the topic,
any opinions on how programs like "wc" should behave for Indian
languages ? Should they not count the combination of a consonant and a
vowel as a character ?

	-Arun