Re: [Indic-computing-users] Hindi fonts for GNU/Linux

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

On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 22:57:43 +0530 (IST)
Frederick Noronha <fr...@by...> wrote:

> PCQuest  last year  released some Hindi fonts for GNU/Linux. Does
> any one know of their suitability? Details below: 
> 
> Issue : February 2002
> 
> Type : Linux 
> 
>  Shusha and Shivaji fonts for
>  Linux. 
> 
  Provides font level support, encoding wise better than any other
unilingual font. I think in 8-bit fonts its the most popular one.

  It has a minimal glyph set ( ~100 ) fonts, just good enough to help
you write in Hindi, marathi, bengali, gujrati etc. Basic feature being
- phonetic ( graphical typing) approach, & that all req glyphs are
encoded in ascii range 32-127, which eliminates need for any keyboard
driver - in line with Mr Harsh Kumars vision that "one should not need
to invest in any extra hardware or software to work in his language".

  The encoding also has become sort of defacto for 8 bit schemes, many
fonts which came after Shusha have followed same approach. Regd
converting them to opentype - since glyph set is minimal, a lot of
work is needed to create all missing glyphs and there was also the
issue of whether they could be put under some specific license ( they
are at present in public domain ), which never became clear.

Regards,
Karunakar

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