Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Mozilla indic support

[Guntupalli K. <kar...@fr...>]

On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 05:51:44 -0700 (PDT)
Baiju M <mal...@ya...> wrote:

> Hi,
>    Now mozilla with hindi support got compiled for me, But it
> use sun's font encoding. From where I can get information about
> that encoding, I am trying to add support for Malayalam, but if
> I can get ifo about that encoding. I can convert malayalam.ttf
> font into that encoding and make big tables for rendering and
> substitution features as done in pango OpenType module.
>
  You need to ask the module designer , he has probably used some font
available on sun platforms.
 There have been long threads on Mozilla i18n & l10n lists on Indic
issues, and it always boiled down to lack of font standard ( font
standard here means a standardized glyph set & a suitable encoding
scheme for it ). Ironically even after having opentype fonts we still
won't be having a font standard.

Regards,
Karunakar