Mangal does not cover Tamil.... however, Latha (another font MS ships with
Windows 2000, like Mangal) does.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Marco Cimarosti" <marco.cimarosti@europe.com>
To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
Cc: <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 5:19 AM
Subject: RE: Indian Languges Fonts
> Charlie Jolly wrote:
> > Can anybody supply me with Indian language fonts that work
> > with IE5.5 and
> > UTF-8 encoding.
> >
> > Primarily I am looking for Punjabi, Gujerati, Bengali and Urdu.
>
> The only Unicode font working with "Indic" scripts that I heard of is
> Microsoft's Mangal, which has to be used in conjuction with the UniScribe
> DLL. But the last time I heard it only supported Devanagari (Hindi,
Nepali,
> Marathi) and Tamil.
>
> About Urdu, there are several Arabic fonts containing all the extra
letters,
> but I think that their don't have the high quality customary with Urdu
> calligraphy.
>
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