At 08:29 3/6/2002, 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?
No, a Unicode font does not need to contain Latin letters. There are issues
regarding using such fonts in Windows 9x and ME, because these systems
require 8-bit codepage support and there are no MS codepages for Indic
scripts. This is why MS Mangal, the Hindi UI font that ships with Windows
2000 and XP is not licensed for use on older versions of the OS.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
... es ist ein unwiederbringliches Bild der Vergangenheit,
das mit jeder Gegenwart zu verschwinden droht, die sich
nicht in ihm gemeint erkannte.
... every image of the past that is not recognized by the
present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear
irretrievably.
Walter Benjamin
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