Developing Telugu Unicode Fonts - Practical Problems and Possible Solutions
Intended Audience: |
Font Designers |
Session Level: |
Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced |
Statement of purpose:
The aim of this paper is to
record the practical problems of developing Unicode
fonts for various Indic Languages in general and
Telugu Language in particular and provide solutions
with Knowledge sharing initiatives. Eversince Unicode
came into existence, various individuals and
organizations have been developing fonts for various
Indic languages and they have been facing many
practical problems and dilemmas. However, there is no
attempt to chronicle them and share them with fellow
developers in order to find out solutions. I would
like share some of my practical problems/dilemmas in
developing Telugu Unicode Fonts.
Paper description:
This is going to be a technical
paper recording the practical problems in developing
aesthetically appealing Telugu Unicode Fonts without
compromising the functional (sorting/indexing etc,)
requirements. Some simple and cost-efficient solutions
will also be outlined in this. The paper will also
ephasize the need for creating/forming a common Open
Source Forum to solve some of the problems associated
with the developing of Unicode Fonts.
Conclusions:
By forming a forum and sharing the
problems/dilemmas and tips and tricks with the fellow
developers we can solve so many problems.
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