Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Yudit 2.5.4

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

On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 01:31:22PM +0530, Dr. U.B. Pavanaja wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If download it for Windows, can I get Unicode Kannada editor on 
> Win98? What about the problem of Win98 NOT supporting OpenType fonts? 
> Has it got a rendering engine for Indic scripts for Opentype fonts?
> 
> I did actually download it for Windows and tried both on Win98 and 
> WinXP. I selected Kannada. Entered some unicode values for Kannada. 
> But I did not see Kannada text. On XP I do have Kannada Opentype 
> fonts.

I haven't used yudit on windows, but on Linux and BSD, I have to explicitly
point it to the TTF file via .yuditrc. It doesn't use operating system
provided facilities to deal with fonts - it deals with them directly.

Gasper wasn't keep on open type fonts last I checked.

	-Arun