>To my knowledge there is not a single 8-bit char set/font
available containing all of the diacritics (or precomposed
chars with diacritics) used in Roman transliteration of Indic
languages, except may be for the
CSX+ (Computer Sanskrit eXtended) fonts that do have most of
them,
You may find that the SIL Encore font package will meet your
needs. It consists of a library of ~1600 glyphs (mostly Roman,
though with lots of diacritics available) in 4 styles for each
of 4 families. It comes with a tool for creating custom
(TrueType) fonts that allows you to combine any of the glyphs
together to form precomposed composites; this should allow you
to get whatever you need. This tool includes a visual editor,
though the editor is designed for creating custom, 8-bit
codepages (i.e. fonts that hack Windows CP1252 and the Mac
Roman codepage), and not Unicode-encoded fonts. The latter can
be created, though you will need to do some of the work in a
text editor without the benefit of the visual editor.
For more information, see http:
//www.sil.org/computing/catalog/encore_fonts.html, which
includes links that show the complete glyph inventory.
Peter
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