Re: [Indic-computing-users] Re: GPL Fonts

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

Frederick Noronha wrote:
> That's very kind of you Michael. I'll pass on your note to the
> IndicComputing mailing list, which has a wide range of people from a
> number of Indian languages. Frederick
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> On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Michael Steidley wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>>Hello!
>>
>>I recently read your article in Linux Journal about Indian language
>>solutions in linux.
>>
>>I'm a graphics designer and digital media specialist. I've been creating
>>fonts for over ten years and I'm interested in helping create fonts for
>>Indian languages which do not have any GPL fonts available.
>>
   Recently a language solutions vendor Cyberscape Media ( Akruti ) 
released a set of TTF fonts for all Indic scripts under GNU GPL. These 
are all 8bit encoded with around 200-220 glyphs (including punctuation & 
some symbols found in iso8859-1 set ). Since Unicode & Opentype is being 
accepted as well suited  for Indic, volunteer efforts have begun to 
encode them to suit Unicode , extend their glyph set and make them Opentype.
   What you could do is take up work on some fonts and make them 
opentype (Right now work is on for Devanagari, Malayalam, Bangla & 
Telugu ) and also evaluating the fonts made by volunteers, as most of 
them are not professional font designers.

Regards,
Karunakar