hia i dowloaded the font pack ,a and it seems that they do not yet support bangla on the otherhand - i found another opentype bangla font, but i has the yuktakshars in the pkaces reserved for gujrati script :( as far as i am concerned, i have proceeded upto the normal - non-yuktakshars words now i'll download M$ VOLT and bengin work on that - dunno how far i'll proceed -sdg-
On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 08:52, Manas Laha wrote: > Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > > > > hello, > > it seems that after all this hullabullo regarding bangla in linux, we > > are back where we started from - we need fonts > > it seems that unicode's policy is to provide only the set of *basic* > > chars for a particular script - the conjuncts can be constructed from > > that set ... > > Hi! Sayamindu and all the others interested in porting Bangla to Gnome: > > NCST, Pune are doing some good work on Indian language fonts and Linux. > They are customizing Gnome for Indian languages. This is their wbsite: > http://rohini.ncst.ernet.in/indix. > > Some months back I had some correspondence with Keyur Shroff > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), of NCST, about getting Gnome to use > Bangla. > He sent me details about what was to be done. The work involves, as you > already know, customizing messages in some files. Alas! the Indix > software > works only on RH 7+ (something to do with some libraries, I think). > I only had RH 6.2 and I didn't want to upgrade just then (I don't want > to, > even now!) So that was the end of my stab at Bangla-customizing Gnome. > > But you might have better luck (and more perseverance!). > > With all good wishes, > > - Manas Laha -- Sayamindu Dasgupta http://www.peacefulaction.org/sayamindu -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 G! d+ s-:- a--- C++(+) UL++>++++ P+ L+++ E--- W+++ N++>+++ o? k? w--- O- M- V- PS+ PE- Y+ PGP++ t+ 5? X- R* tv++ b+++ DI- D+ G++ e- h* !r !z+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
