At 17:29 +0100 2002-06-03, Yaap Raaf wrote:
>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.
>
The first one is RA + VIRAMA + VOCALIC R, it looks to me. That would
be, in principle, a valid but rare syllable. Maybe it's Vedic.
The second one, I'm not sure what to think of. It looks like NGA + RA
+ NUKTA + VOCALIC R, and I couldn't begin to wonder what it's
supposed to represent.
-- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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