Hi, There is a newsletter at http://tdil.mit.gov.in/news.htm, and the more recent one http://tdil.mit.gov.in/tdiljan2002.pdf ( This describes some font standardization effort )
TDIL - Technology Development in Indian languages , a Ministry IT, GOI supported project, More info at http://tdil.mit.gov.in Regards, Karunakar On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 16:12:26 -0700 Prabhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > James Kass wrote: > > >Prabhat Hedge wrote, > > > >>* Indic scripts do not have any standard (as in > >published/registered/> recognized) font encoding that i know of. > >> > > > >ISCII is the standard for Indic scripts. > > > > ISCII is not a font-encoding, ISFOC is but its neither published nor > > standard. > > > > >>* Indian language web-sites use mis-use charset tag > >"x-user-defined".> > > > >So do some non-Indian language web sites. > > > > But most of them do not need CTL (Complex Text Layout) support as is > > essential for Indian scripts. > Which means that either a glyph-set or font-encoding standard is > required or that all platforms that > need this support need to have OT/Intelligent font support. > > with regards, > prabhat. >
