Re: Devanagari enthousiasm!

From: Yaap Raaf (yaapraaf@xs4all.nl)
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 11:29:20 EST


At 14:02 +0100 2002.03.06, Bob_Hallissy@sil.org wrote:

>I interpret this to mean one may not legitimately use this font for any
>purpose other than viewing the BBC website.

If http://www.bbc.co.uk/hindi/images/download_text.gif
is any indication, the font doesn't look too promising.
Have you seen it? I am on a Mac and can't open it, it's a
244K .exe Why an .exe?

BTW, the menus and headers at http://www.bbc.co.uk/hindi/
come out as gibberish on my screen, the articles are fine.
(MacOS 9.0)

The great enthousiasme in the message I forwarded was what
struck me, and then, several times the word 'STANDARD' in capitals!
People have to see results before they believe, and spread the word.

There was another message announcing Raghu font.

>Subject: Free Unicode Hindi fonts
>From: Dakshin Shantakumar <dakshin@mailjol.com>
>Newsgroups: alt.language.hindi soc.culture.indian
>Date: 2 Mar 2002 13:51:45 -0800

Downloadable here
  http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~matra/hindi_display.shtml

It has about 600 glyphs. But no Latin letters, which, IIRC,
disqualifies it as a real Unicode font?

Some of the glyphs are are unfamiliar to me.

Yaap

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