On Sunday 06 October 2002 11:35 am, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> I am wondering *how important* those Arabic and Indic scripts?
Vital.
> While there is a certan number of people living in those countries, I doubt
A billion or so, yes.
> that they have a lot of computers, and nuymbe rof *Linux* users from that
> number is quaestionable, too.
Encore Software expects to sell about a million Simputers next year, mostly in
India. The Simputer is a Linux handheld.
> And when those things happen to change - we will see some people willing to
> contribute to free fonts for those languages. But this won't happen
> tomorrow...
Actually, it was last week, in honor of Gandhi's birthday. Currently there are
35 free fonts for all nine Indic writing systems at this site.
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Subject: [CharMan] Indic language fonts releasde under GPL by Akruti
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 16:33:50 -0000
From: "Baiju M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
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/
Baiju M
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