Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Wednesday 22 Jul 2009 8:59:05 pm vinay ವಿನಯ್ wrote:
One of the fundamental issues in Karnataka is that the 'official' font
of the Government - Nudi, does not work (well) on GNU/Linux. This is
preventing government departments/agencies from adopting FOSS.
actually the fundamental issue is again open standards in fonts or not. It is
not a question of Nudi, it is more a question of adoption of unicode - I do
not know whether the unicode standard for Kannada is correct, or messed up as
in Tamil.
Hariprasad, Shivu - can you please comment on this?
We need to focus on standardised fonts in open format - preferably
unicode which is a universal standard now. In such a case, we can be truly
platform neutral with regard to local language text editors. I see Gora has
also commented on this, and as he is far more qualified I leave the drafting to
him.
I have also seen comments from MyLug that Kannada unicode is b0rked and does
not render properly. So do we have a viable alternative to Nudi in Kannada?
Hariprasad, Shivu - can you please comment on this too? Thanks!
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Vinay Sreenivasa
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