[Fsf-india] Integrating TTF fonts on Windows to Linux

Gopal.V gopalv82@yahoo.com
Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:07:54 +0530


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If memory serves me right, CK Raju wrote:
> Were we talking about integrating ttf fonts on Windows on X Server on
> Linux ?
> 
	NO ! . What we are talking about here is Unicode support for 
GNU for Indian languages. The real way to go is a custom renderer
which accepts Unicode and display the combination (Malayalam is a 
hell of a lot tougher than most others). The only way out is to
use Pango, GNOME's renderer. It is not that tough....but is a lot
of work ....mapping the combination letter glyphs.

	Malayalam is one of the toughest indic languages to render due 
to the presence of "Chill" characters.
> That would help us a great deal as fonts available on all local
> languages as ttf files can now be integrated on Linux.
> 
	We need native font support like Type-1 because not all X
support TTF. I faced a problem when my Redhat would accept TTF
and my Debian Potato won't. TTF is available only in the X.4 
versions. (but you could always use XFSTT with XFree86 3)

	And next time ....GNU/Linux plz. 

Gopal.V

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