> I am wondering *how important* those Arabic and
> Indic scripts?
> While there is a certan number of people living in
> those countries, I doubt 
> that they have a lot of computers, and nuymbe rof
> *Linux* users from that 
> number is quaestionable, too.

Oops. The LUG in Bangalore alone has several hundred
members. There are so many opensource localization
projects in India, that the problem is one of
coordinating them.

The Indian Ministry of Information Technology is doing
what it can to coordinate the development and
standardization of char sets and fonts for the 10
Indian scripts in question.

> 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...

It happened long ago. Maybe it is time for the outside
world to pay some attention.

-frank

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