[Indic-computing-users] Akruthi fonts need to be encoded

[Nagarjuna G. <nag...@hb...>]

We started working with the akruthi fonts with a team of volunteers.
With these set of fonts I think the following needs to be done.

1. First the fonts are not encoded for utf-8 input method.  So the
font file should be opened in a editor (pfaedit) and cut paste the
glyphs at the appropriate unicode pages and recreate the fonts.

2. The other alternative is to use the existing encoding which uses
the first 256 characters of the kb, and make a xmodmap file.  May be
we can use both the strategies.

Before we begin converting them to opentype fonts, we wish to make the
fonts work so that the OS begins to support indian languages.  Since 1
and two are not very difficult tasks, please find time to do that.  To
eliminate overlapping let us announce who is doing what in the list so
that we save time.  Our group is now working on the devanagari fonts.
After our experiment succeeds we will inform and uplaod the results.

I also want the experts to inform me if the strategy is not correct.
I am just beginning to understand the technology so I may be wrong in
my decisions.  

Nagarjuna