On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
[cross-postecd]
guys, this should concern all of us, picked this up from indic-computing
mailing list. even more reason why much more work must happen on indian font
development.
for your reference: mangal is the name of the devanagri hindi font,
available under windows xp 2k, etc, by microsoft. the font is unicoded, and
opentype. but sayamindu dasgupta points out M$ may have *distorted* the
unicoding...
any comments?
LL
> On 12 Dec 2002 at 21:44, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> > complications which may be involved), and that will need some hacking.
> > Of course, a major advantage is that there is already an "official"
> > Devnagari font from M$, and you can use that for reference.
>
> I was editing mangal in pfaedit and found that pfaedit specified the
unicode
> character above each glyph. Looking at these two, looks like mangal has
largely
> distorted unicode specification It gives glyph of 'kra' instead of 'ka'. SO
if
> a keyboard map conforms to unicode, it is likely that fonts like mangal
will
> produce garbage..
>
> > Also, good quality "Free" (as in Free Speech)Open Type tables editing
> > tools are not available, and so, you may have to use M$ tools to do the
> > job :-(
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