On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 13:03 +0530, vinay ವಿನಯ್ wrote: > > Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 Jul 2009 8:59:05 pm vinay ವಿನಯ್ wrote: > > > >> One of the fundamental issues in Karnataka is that the 'official' font > >> of the Government - Nudi, does not work (well) on GNU/Linux. This is > >> preventing government departments/agencies from adopting FOSS. > >> > > > > actually the fundamental issue is again open standards in fonts or not. It > > is > > not a question of Nudi, it is more a question of adoption of unicode - I do > > not know whether the unicode standard for Kannada is correct, or messed up > > as > > in Tamil. > Hariprasad, Shivu - can you please comment on this?
> > We need to focus on standardised fonts in open format - preferably > > unicode which is a universal standard now. In such a case, we can be truly > > platform neutral with regard to local language text editors. I see Gora has > > also commented on this, and as he is far more qualified I leave the > > drafting to > > him. Presently several existing Kannada Unicode fonts are flawed. There are no rendering issues with respect to Unicode on GNU/Linux apart from the arkavattu issue that apparently has a fix in Unicode, but not 'implemented' (?) on certain rendering engines. Check a draft page we did earlier: http://dev.sampada.net/Kannada_Localization_TODO_List There's not much content in there, but lists the priority work needed to be done w.r.t Kannada. Cheers, > > > > I have also seen comments from MyLug that Kannada unicode is b0rked and > > does > > not render properly. So do we have a viable alternative to Nudi in Kannada? > > > Hariprasad, Shivu - can you please comment on this too? Thanks! > > _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
