Re: Unicode Devanagari Font in Mozilla]

From: Guntupalli Karunakar (karunakar@freedomink.org)
Date: Thu Jul 18 2002 - 12:31:39 EDT


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 <prabhat.hegde@sun.com> 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.
>



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