I recently wrote letter to Lobsang Monlam — Creator of the Unicode Tibetan Bod-Yig font which only works on Windows and Mac. following is the copy:
Dear Kusho Lobsang Monlam la, First of all I would like to congratulate for your success of Monlam Bodyig font 3.0 ver. I really admire your notion behind that project, as I learned from your website that your project is specially to protect our distinct culture "Tibetan Script" in this digital world. You have developed the Tibetan Unicode font to work on Windows and Mac but Monlam la I would like to inform you that due to existence of Tibetan font only on Windows and Mac, our people only depend on these OS. Being myself a Tibean Geeks I mostly recommend our people to use Linux OS, I hope you might aware of recent news on China cyber attacks on Many of His Holiness Dalai Lama office in various country and also in CTA. Windows is so easy for Hacker to attack that's why I always suggest people to use Linux once they adopt then they will see the difference between Windows and Linux, having a better advantages over Windows, also it is free and software are also available free of cost. Our Kalon Tripa recent comment on News said it is so expensive for the CTA to maintain digital security...but I should tell our Prime Minister that there's beautiful called "Linux" which has high security and also free. So monlam la this is my small request to you that if you can make your font works on Linux then I certainly believe that our people might think of using Linux... do you think it is difficult task or your never tried it before? Hope you consider on my request. Regards, Tashi Samphel New Delhi, INDIA On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 12:30 AM, <ilugd-requ...@lists.linux-delhi.org>wrote: > Send ilugd mailing list submissions to > ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > ilugd-requ...@lists.linux-delhi.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > ilugd-ow...@lists.linux-delhi.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of ilugd digest..." > > > Please trim replies before posting. > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: ilugd Digest, Vol 73, Issue 9 (tashi samphel) > 2. Re: ilugd Digest, Vol 73, Issue 9 (Mehul Ved) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:31:27 +0530 > From: tashi samphel <tasa...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [ilugd] ilugd Digest, Vol 73, Issue 9 > To: ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > Message-ID: > <3f50c0c20904102201n674e2bd6xec2575b2c37ba...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi Guys! > > do you think there's way to create Tibetan Unicode font for Linux > OS...Because in our Tibetan community most of people are fully depend on > Window OS due to Font. I believe that almost 90% of Tibetan are using > Windows because of Tibetan Unicode font which works on it. but it doesn't > works on Linux OS. if we able to create a Tibetan unicode font for Linux > then i certainly feel that we Tibetan have one more better option. so any > guy in this mailing list would like to share on this matter to find a > better > solution. > > Thanks, > > Tashi Samphel (Tibetan Geeks) > New Delhi, INDIA > > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:30 AM, <ilugd-requ...@lists.linux-delhi.org > >wrote: > > > Send ilugd mailing list submissions to > > ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > > ilugd-requ...@lists.linux-delhi.org > > > > You can reach the person managing the list at > > ilugd-ow...@lists.linux-delhi.org > > > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > > than "Re: Contents of ilugd digest..." > > > > > > Please trim replies before posting. > > > > Today's Topics: > > > > 1. Re: NFS client - Urgent (Raj Shekhar) > > 2. PDF Urdu font problem (Raj Mathur) > > 3. Re: PDF Urdu font problem (Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay) > > 4. Re: PDF Urdu font problem (Raj Mathur) > > 5. apple airport express on ubuntu with foss apps? (Linux Lingam) > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:27:58 -0700 > > From: Raj Shekhar <rajl...@rajshekhar.net> > > Subject: Re: [ilugd] NFS client - Urgent > > To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list <ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org> > > Message-ID: <49de928e.3040...@rajshekhar.net> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > > > Yashpal Nagar wrote: > > > > > The above problem appears intermittently and would disappear if i just > > > umount and mount the file systems manually. > > > > Do a dmesg on you NFS-server and see if you are seeing any hdd issues on > > the server. > > > > -- > > raj shekhar > > http://rajshekhar.net > > I've never made anyone's life easier and you know it! > > > > Read the latest at my blog: > > "Happy Holi at Stanford, California, USA!" > > < > > > http://rajshekhar.net/blog/archives/341-Happy-Holi-at-Stanford,-California,-USA!.html<http://rajshekhar.net/blog/archives/341-Happy-Holi-at-Stanford,-California,-USA%21.html> > < > http://rajshekhar.net/blog/archives/341-Happy-Holi-at-Stanford,-California,-USA%21.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 2 > > Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:33:19 +0530 > > From: Raj Mathur <r...@linux-delhi.org> > > Subject: [ilugd] PDF Urdu font problem > > To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list <ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org> > > Message-ID: <200904100833.19950.r...@linux-delhi.org> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > > Hi, > > > > Using the TCPDF component to generate PDF files from Urdu articles in a > > Joomla site. With a fair amount of googling managed to get the Debian > > NafeesWebNaskh font embedded into the document. However, the generated > > PDFs only display a few characters from the font, the rest are > > consistently displayed as blanks. > > > > The characters are all here, because if you select and copy the PDF text > > (e.g. in Kpdf) and paste it into an editor it displays the complete > > Urdu text beautifully. > > > > Would someone who has some experience with PDF be able to figure out > > what's wrong here? Sample file (97K) is available at: > > > > http://images.kandalaya.org/urdu.pdf > > > > Regards, > > > > -- Raju > > -- > > Raj Mathur r...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ > > GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F > > PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 3 > > Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:09:04 +0530 > > From: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <foss.mailingli...@gmail.com> > > Subject: Re: [ilugd] PDF Urdu font problem > > To: r...@linux-delhi.org, The Linux-Delhi mailing list > > <ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org> > > Message-ID: > > <35586fc00904092039s12b54d1duaa4e26a7a4d51...@mail.gmail.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Raj Mathur <r...@linux-delhi.org> > wrote: > > > > > The characters are all here, because if you select and copy the PDF > text > > > (e.g. in Kpdf) and paste it into an editor it displays the complete > > > Urdu text beautifully. > > > > If you use the same font to write something in a standard editor/word > > processor and output it to PDF, does it render b0rked or as_expected ? > > > > > > -- > > > > http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published > > http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science > > http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 4 > > Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:48:18 +0530 > > From: Raj Mathur <r...@linux-delhi.org> > > Subject: Re: [ilugd] PDF Urdu font problem > > To: ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > > Message-ID: <200904100948.18340.r...@linux-delhi.org> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > On Friday 10 Apr 2009, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Raj Mathur <r...@linux-delhi.org> > > wrote: > > > > The characters are all here, because if you select and copy the PDF > > > > text (e.g. in Kpdf) and paste it into an editor it displays the > > > > complete Urdu text beautifully. > > > > > > If you use the same font to write something in a standard editor/word > > > processor and output it to PDF, does it render b0rked or as_expected? > > > > Interesting diagnostic! Yes, if I paste the text from the PDF into OOo > > writer, convert all to Nafees font and generate a fresh PDF it looks > > just fine. > > > > Maybe I should get Joomla to just use OOo to generate PDFs from pages > > (j/k :) > > > > Regards, > > > > -- Raju > > -- > > Raj Mathur r...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ > > GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F > > PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Message: 5 > > Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:06:05 +0530 > > From: Linux Lingam <linuxlin...@gmail.com> > > Subject: [ilugd] apple airport express on ubuntu with foss apps? > > To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list <ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org>, > > Ubuntu India Local Community <ubuntu...@lists.ubuntu.com> > > Message-ID: > > <68ddcb070904092336n6ddd94b9wb3081e67a5a72...@mail.gmail.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > > dear all, > > > > anybody has any experience in running apple's airport express under > > ubuntu or any other flavour? > > http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/ > > > > since you can connect wired speakers to airport express, > > and then use wi-fi to stream music to them, > > am looking for a FOSS app that can do that. > > so far, iTunes does that for free-of-cost, > > and have noted a few shareware and commercial apps that do that. > > > > google points to several resources and blog-posts, > > but am keen to hear from those on this list. > > please share your experiences. > > > > regards > > niyam > > > > -- > > niyam bhushan > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ilugd mailing list > > ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > > > > > > End of ilugd Digest, Vol 73, Issue 9 > > ************************************ > > > > > > -- > tasamphel > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:39:42 +0530 > From: Mehul Ved <mehul.n....@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [ilugd] ilugd Digest, Vol 73, Issue 9 > To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list <ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org> > Message-ID: > <c1e7523f0904102209r8e5e7b1o41e1a56085abf...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 10:31 AM, tashi samphel <tasa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Guys! > > > > do you think there's way to create Tibetan Unicode font for Linux > > OS... > > This should work for displaying the fonts > > https://collab.itc.virginia.edu/access/wiki/site/26a34146-33a6-48ce-001e-f16ce7908a6a/using%20tibetan%20in%20linux.html > Also, xkb support input in Chinese Tibetian. I have no idea if it is > the same or different from what you use. > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailing list > ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > > > End of ilugd Digest, Vol 73, Issue 10 > ************************************* > -- tasamphel _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
