On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 22:20, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:

> My computing environment is Plan9.  Plan9 fully supports Unicode
> (UTF-8), but it lacks the glyphs for several font ranges.  There is
> currently no ttf or opentype support or conversion routines.  I've
> written a BDF font converter to Plan9 native format to fill in some of
> the ranges, include 600-6FF.  My long term goal is to add support
> for bidi/joining to Plan9.

Since all the platforms we use support OpenType, we can't spend our time
on something that's a non-issue for us. Sorry...

> BTW, there is a large collection of opensource fonts (efont)
> that I've used but their arabic/farsi glyphs are not very
> satisfying.  Their preferred format is also BDF.  Have you considered
> contributing to that effort?

Any URL?

roozbeh


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