On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 00:07, Sudhakar Chandra wrote: > From: "Raju Mathur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > How does one display Hindi pages in Netscape? For instance I have 2 > > or 3 Devnagri fonts on my system (shusha, richa and webdunia?), but > > each site I visit seems to require it's own font. If I install the > > webdunia font I can view the webdunia site in Devnagri but not > > (e.g.) http://www.bbc.co.uk/hindi/. BBC, of course, provides its > > fonts in a DOS executable, which is so helpful :) > > The problem is lack of standardization. Each site seems to use their own > fonts and char sets. If you are just an end user, all you can do is email > the people who run the site and complain bitterly. If, on the other hand, > you are developing a site in Hindi, use unicode as the encoding / char set. > Link to unicode Hindi fonts etc. > > Thaths > > hi! yes, unicode is the only viable solution here but the problem with unicode is that they do not provide the yuktakshars (for devnagari u have some, but for bangla and other indic languages there are none) the solution seems to use the Open Type fonts *.otf fonts, which can map glyphs to a set of characters and thus can show yuktakshars however, linux support for this feature of OTF is not yet very good, though seems to be in active development. -cheers-
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