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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alok G. Singh) writes:

[...]

> Here [2] are the CDAC fonts. I am not sure about the distributability
> of the fonts, but since _our_ government funded this, I think we have
> a right to use them.

Yes, it works. But not going to use them, unless license is clear.

> I don't understand what is meant by 'complex script rendering'. I am
> using self-packaged versions of unicode-2 for my day-to-day work and
> have yet to encounter a problem in either devanagari-itrans or
> kannada-itrans.

For complex script rendering, see [1]. Cool, I'll soon compile
"emacs-unicode-2". But does it work with only CDAC fonts, or also with
free font like "Lohit Hindi", hmm... ?

>
> CDAC has recently released a CD containing some software for Indian
> languages and that CD has a bunch of TTF indic fonts. Most of them are
> fugly (imho), but if you want I can put them up somewhere. Of course,
> this means that you have to use unicode-2 as that is the only Emacs
> that supports xft. More details here [3].

I don't require CDAC stuff, as "Lohit Hindi" works fine for me. :)

>
> Footnotes: 
> [1]  http://hcoop.net/~alephnull/Screenshot.png
> [2]  http://hcoop.net/~alephnull/cdacfonts.tar.gz
> [3]  http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/XftGnuEmacs

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_script 

>
> -- 
> Alok
>
> His mind is like a steel trap: full of mice.
>               -- Foghorn Leghorn

Thanks
Ashish Shukla
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