On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, vinod wrote:

> From: "Baiju M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 9:13 AM

> > Cyberscape multimedia limited has released Indic language TrueType
> > Fonts (TTF) under GNU General Public License on 2nd October. The
> > fonts can be downloaded from http://www.akruti.com/freedom/

> is this a unicode font ? how to use this with mozilla and other GTK based
> applicartions.

  No, they're not. To use them in Mozilla, one has to figure out mappings
from a seq. of Unicode charaters to a seq. of glyphs. Once mappings
are known, it wouldn't be very hard to make Mozilla use them. (I just
began to work on a similar project for pre-1933 Korean text rendering.
see http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176315.  Also, see
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176290 for a bug on the
generic issue of taking advantage of those fonts in Xft-enabled Mozilla.)

 In case of Pango, it seems like support of hack-encoded fonts is being
phased out in favor of opentype fonts. Pango 1.x already has a pretty
extensive support of Indic script rendering with opentype fonts.

  Jungshik

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