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Merged unicode-support back into trunk. Now all GUI/visible strings should be unicode. Internal strings unchanged. Remember to use a font that actually has the desired codepoints. Current default unicode policiy is 'ignore'.
author phoku@33b003aa-7bff-0310-803a-e67f0ece8222
date Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:38:11 +0000
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1 -*- mode:text; coding:utf-8; -*-
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2 GNU FreeFont Credits
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3 ====================
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5 This file lists contributors and contributions to the GNU FreeFont project.
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8 * URW++ Design & Development GmbH <http://www.urwpp.de/>
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10 URW++ donated a set of 35 core PostScript Type 1 fonts to the
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11 Ghostscript project <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/>, to be available
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12 under the terms of GNU General Public License (GPL).
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14 Basic Latin (U+0041-U+007A)
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15 Latin-1 Supplement (U+00C0-U+00FF)
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16 Latin Extended-A (U+0100-U+017F)
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17 Spacing Modifier Letters (U+02B0-U+02FF)
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18 Mathematical Operators (U+2200-U+22FF)
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19 Block Elements (U+2580-U+259F)
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20 Dingbats (U+2700-U+27BF)
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23 * Yannis Haralambous <yannis.haralambous AT enst-bretagne.fr> and John
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24 Plaice <plaice AT omega.cse.unsw.edu.au>
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26 Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice are the authors of Omega typesetting
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27 system, <http://omega.enstb.org/>. Omega is an extension of TeX.
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28 Its first release, aims primarily at improving TeX's multilingual abilities.
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29 In Omega all characters and pointers into data-structures are 16-bit wide,
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30 instead of 8-bit, thereby eliminating many of the trivial limitations of TeX.
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31 Omega also allows multiple input and output character sets, and uses
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32 programmable filters to translate from one encoding to another, to perform
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33 contextual analysis, etc. Internally, Omega uses the universal 16-bit Unicode
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34 standard character set, based on ISO-10646. These improvements not only make
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35 it a lot easier for TeX users to cope with multiple or complex languages,
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36 like Arabic, Indic, Khmer, Chinese, Japanese or Korean, in one document, but
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37 will also form the basis for future developments in other areas, such as
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38 native color support and hypertext features. ... Fonts for UT1 (omlgc family)
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39 and UT2 (omah family) are under development: these fonts are in PostScript
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40 format and visually close to Times and Helvetica font families.
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41 Omega fonts are available subject to GPL
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43 Latin Extended-B (U+0180-U+024F)
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44 IPA Extensions (U+0250-U+02AF)
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45 Greek (U+0370-U+03FF)
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46 Armenian (U+0530-U+058F)
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47 Hebrew (U+0590-U+05FF)
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48 Arabic (U+0600-U+06FF)
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49 Currency Symbols (U+20A0-U+20CF)
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50 Arabic Presentation Forms-A (U+FB50-U+FDFF)
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51 Arabic Presentation Forms-B (U+FE70-U+FEFF)
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53 Current info: <http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=omega>
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55 * Valek Filippov <frob AT df.ru>
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57 Valek Filippov added Cyrillic glyphs and composite Latin Extended A to
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58 the whole set of the abovementioned URW set of 35 PostScript core fonts,
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59 <ftp://ftp.gnome.ru/fonts/urw/>. The fonts are available under GPL.
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61 Latin Extended-A (U+0100-U+017F)
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62 Cyrillic (U+0400-U+04FF)
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65 * Wadalab Kanji Comittee
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66
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67 Between April 1990 and March 1992, Wadalab Kanji Comittee put together
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68 a series of scalable font files with Japanese scripts, in four forms:
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69 Sai Micho, Chu Mincho, Cho Kaku and Saimaru. The font files are
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70 written in custom file format, while tools for conversion into
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71 Metafont and PostScript Type 1 are also supplied. The Wadalab Kanji
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72 Comittee has later been dismissed, and the resulting files can be now
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73 found on the FTP server of the Depertment of Mathematical Engineering
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74 and Information Physics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo
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75 <ftp://ftp.ipl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Font/>.
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77 Hiragana (U+3040-U+309F)
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78 Katakana (U+30A0-U+30FF)
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81 * Young U. Ryu <ryoung AT utdallas.edu>
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82
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83 Young Ryu is the author of Txfonts, a set of mathematical symbols
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84 designed to accompany text typeset in Times or its variants. In the
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85 documentation, Young adresses the design of mathematical symbols: "The
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86 Adobe Times fonts are thicker than the CM fonts. Designing math fonts
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87 for Times based on the rule thickness of Times = , , + , / , < ,
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88 etc. would result in too thick math symbols, in my opinion. In the TX
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89 fonts, these glyphs are thinner than those of original Times
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90 fonts. That is, the rule thickness of these glyphs is around 85% of
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91 that of the Times fonts, but still thicker than that of the CM fonts."
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92 TX fonts are are distributed under the GNU public license (GPL).
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93 <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/txfonts/>.
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95 Arrows (U+2190-U+21FF)
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96 Mathematical Symbols (U+2200-U+22FF)
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99 * Angelo Haritsis <ah AT computer.org>
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101 Angelo Haritsis has compiled a set of Greek Type 1 fonts, available on
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102 <ftp://ftp.hellug.gr/pub/unix/linux/GREEK/fonts/greekXfonts-Type1-1.1.tgz>.
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103 The glyphs from this source has been used to compose Greek glyphs in
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104 FreeSans and FreeMono.
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106 Angelo's licence says: "You can enjoy free use of these fonts for
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107 educational or commercial purposes. All derived works should include
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108 this paragraph. If you want to change something please let me have
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109 your changes (via email) so that they can go into the next
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110 version. You can also send comments etc to the above address."
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112 Greek (U+0370-U+03FF)
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115 * Yannis Haralambous and Virach Sornlertlamvanich
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116
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117 In 1999, Yannis Haralambous and Virach Sornlertlamvanich made a set of
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118 glyphs covering the Thai national standard Nf3, in both upright and
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119 slanted shape. The collection of glyphs have been made part of GNU
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120 intlfonts 1.2 package and is available under the GPL at
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121 <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/intlfonts/>.
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122
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123 Thai (U+0E00-U+0E7F)
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124
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125
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126 * Shaheed R. Haque <srhaque AT iee.org>
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127
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128 Shaheed Haque has developed a basic set of basic Bengali glyphs
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129 (without ligatures), using ISO10646 encoding. They are available under
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130 the XFree86 license at <http://www.btinternet.com/~shaheedhaque/>.
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131
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132 Copyright (C) 2001 S.R.Haque <srhaque AT iee.org>. All Rights Reserved.
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133
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134 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
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135 a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
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136 "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
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137 without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
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138 distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
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139 permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
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140 the following conditions:
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141
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142 The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
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143 included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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144
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145 THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
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146 EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
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147 MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
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148 IN NO EVENT SHALL S.R.HAQUE BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
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149 LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
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150 ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
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151 OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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152
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153 Except as contained in this notice, the name of S.R.Haque shall not be
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154 used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other
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155 dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from
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156 S.R.Haque.
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157
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158 Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF)
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159
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160
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161 * Sam Stepanyan <sam AT arminco.com>
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162
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163 Sam Stepanyan created a set of Armenian sans serif glyphs visually
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164 compatible with Helvetica or Arial. Available on
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165 <http://www.editum.com.ar/mashtots/html/fonts/ara.tar.gz>. On
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166 2002-01-24, Sam writes: "Arial Armenian font is free for
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167 non-commercial use, so it is OK to use under GPL license."
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168
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169 Armenian (U+0530-U+058F)
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170
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171
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172 * Mohamed Ishan <ishan AT mitf.f2s.com>
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173
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174 Mohamed Ishan has started a Thaana Unicode Project
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175 <http://thaana.sourceforge.net/> and among other things created a
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176 couple of Thaana fonts, available under FDL or BDF license.
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177
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178 Thaana (U+0780-U+07BF)
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179
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180
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181 * Sushant Kumar Dash <sushant AT writeme.com> (*)
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182
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183 Sushant Dash has created a font in his mother tongue, Oriya. As he
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184 states on his web page <http://members.tripod.com/~sushantdash/>:
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185 "Please feel free to foreword this mail to your Oriya friends. No
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186 copyright law is applied for this font. It is totally free!!! Feel
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187 free to modify this using any font editing tools. This is designed for
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188 people like me, who are away from Orissa and want to write letters
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189 home using Computers, but suffer due to unavailability of Oriya
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190 fonts.(Or the cost of the available packages are too much)."
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191
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192 Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F)
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193
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194
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195 * Harsh Kumar <harshkumar AT vsnl.com>
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196
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197 Harsh Kumar has started BharatBhasha <http://www.bharatbhasha.net/> -
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198 an effort to provide "FREE software, Tutorial, Source Codes
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199 etc. available for working in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Gurmukhi and
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200 Bangla. You can type text, write Web pages or develop Indian Languages
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201 Applications on Windows and on Linux. We also offer FREE help to
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202 users, enthusiasts and software developers for their work in Indian
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203 languages."
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204
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205 Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F)
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206 Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF)
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207 Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F)
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208 Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF)
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209
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210
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211 * Prasad A. Chodavarapu <chprasad AT hotmail.com>
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212
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213 Prasad A. Chodavarapu created Tikkana, a Telugu font available in Type
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214 1 and TrueType format on <http://chaitanya.bhaavana.net/fonts/>.
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215 Tikkana exceeds the Unicode Telugu range with some composite glyphs.
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216 Available under the GNU General Public License.
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217
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218 Telugu (U+0C00-U+0C7F)
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219
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220
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221 * Frans Velthuis <velthuis AT rc.rug.nl> and Anshuman Pandey
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222 <apandey AT u.washington.edu>
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223
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224 In 1991, Frans Velthuis from the Groningen University, The
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225 Netherlands, released a Devanagari font as Metafont source, available
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226 under the terms of GNU GPL. Later, Anshuman Pandey from the Washington
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227 University, Seattle, USA, took over the maintenance of font. Fonts can
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228 be found on CTAN, <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/devanagari/>. I
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229 converted the font to Type 1 format using Péter Szabó's TeXtrace
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230 program <http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/textrace/> and removed some
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231 redundant control points with PfaEdit.
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232
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233 Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F)
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234
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235
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236 * Hardip Singh Pannu <HSPannu AT aol.com>
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237
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238 In 1991, Hardip Singh Pannu has created a free Gurmukhi TrueType font,
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239 available as regular, bold, oblique and bold oblique form. Its license
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240 says "Please remember that these fonts are copyrighted (by me) and are
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241 for non-profit use only."
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242
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243 Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F)
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244
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245
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246 * Jeroen Hellingman <jehe AT kabelfoon.nl>
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247
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248 Jeroen Hellingman created a set of Malayalam metafonts in 1994, and a
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249 set of Oriya metafonts in 1996. Malayalam fonts were created as
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250 uniform stroke only, while Oriya metafonts exist in both uniform and
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251 modulated stroke. From private communication: "It is my intention to
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252 release the fonts under GPL, but not all copies around have this
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253 notice on them." Metafonts can be found on CTAN,
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254 <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/oriya/> and
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255 <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/malayalam/>.
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256
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257 Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F)
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258 Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F)
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259
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260
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261 * Thomas Ridgeway <> (*)
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262
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263 Thomas Ridgeway, then at the Humanities And Arts Computing Center,
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264 Washington University, Seattle, USA, (now defunct), created a Tamil
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265 metafont in 1990. Anshuman Pandey from the same university took over
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266 the maintenance of font. Fonts can be found at CTAN,
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267 <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/tamil/wntamil/>.
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268
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269 Tamil (U+0B80-U+0BFF)
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270
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271
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272 * Berhanu Beyene <1beyene AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>,
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273 Prof. Dr. Manfred Kudlek <kudlek AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>, Olaf
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274 Kummer <kummer AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>, and Jochen Metzinger <?>
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275
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276 Beyene, Kudlek, Kummer and Metzinger from the Theoretical Foundations
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277 of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, prepared a set of Ethiopic
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278 metafonts, found on
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279 <ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/ethiopia/ethiop/>. They also
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280 maintain home page on the Ethiopic font project,
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281 <http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/mitarbeiter/wimis/kummer/ethiop_eng.html>,
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282 and can be reached at <ethiop AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>. The current
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283 version of fonts is 0.7 (1998), and they are released under GNU GPL. I
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284 converted the fonts to Type 1 format using Péter Szabó's TeXtrace-A
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285 program <http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/textrace/> and removed some
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286 redundant control points with PfaEdit.
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287
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288 Ethiopic (U+1200-U+137F)
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289
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290
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291 * Maxim Iorsh <iorsh AT users.sourceforge.net>
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292
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293 In 2002, Maxim Iorsh started the Culmus project, aiming at providing
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294 Hebrew-speaking Linux and Unix community with a basic collection of
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295 Hebrew fonts for X Windows. The fonts are visually compatible with
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296 URW++ Century Schoolbook L, URW++ Nimbus Sans L and URW++ Nimbus Mono
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297 L families, respectively, and are released under GNU GPL license. See
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298 also <http://culmus.sourceforge.net/>.
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299
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300 Hebrew (U+0590-U+05FF)
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301
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302
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303 * Panayotis Katsaloulis <panayotis AT panayotis.com>
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304
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305 Panayotis Katsaloulis helped fixing Greek accents in the Greek
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306 Extended area.
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307
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308 Greek Extended (U+1F00-U+1FFF)
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309
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310
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311 * Vyacheslav Dikonov <sdiconov AT mail.ru>
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312
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313 Vyacheslav Dikonov made a Braille unicode font that could be merged
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314 with the UCS fonts to fill the 2800-28FF range completely. (uniform
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315 scaling is possible to adapt it to any cell size). He also contributed
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316 a free syriac font, whose glyphs (about half of them) are borrowed
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317 from the "Carlo Ator" font freely downloadable from
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318 <http://www.aacf.asso.fr/>. Vyacheslav also filled in a few missing
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319 spots in the U+2000-U+27FF area, e.g. the box drawing section, sets of
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320 subscript and superscript digits and capital Roman numbers.
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321
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322 Syriac (U+0700-U+074A)
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323 Box Drawing (U+2500-U+257F)
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324 Braille (U+2800-U+28FF)
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325
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326
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327 * M.S. Sridhar <mssridhar AT vsnl.com>
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328
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329 M/S Cyberscape Multimedia Limited, Mumbai, developers of Akruti
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330 Software for Indian Languages (http://www.akruti.com/), have released
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331 a set of TTF fonts for nine Indian scripts (Devanagari, Gujarati,
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332 Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Oriya, and Gurumukhi)
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333 under the GNU General Public License (GPL). You can download the fonts
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334 from the Free Software Foundation of India WWW site
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335 (http://www.gnu.org.in/akruti-fonts/) or from the Akruti website.
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336
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337 For any further information or assistance regarding these fonts,
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338 please contact mssridhar AT vsnl.com.
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339
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340 Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F)
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341 Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF)
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342 Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F)
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343 Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF)
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344 Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F)
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345 Tamil (U+0B80-U+0BFF)
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346 Telugu (U+0C00-U+0C7F)
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347 Kannada (U+0C80-U+0CFF)
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348 Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F)
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349
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350
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351 * DMS Electronics, The Sri Lanka Tipitaka Project, and Noah Levitt
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352 <nlevitt AT columbia.edu>
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353
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354 Noah Levitt found out that the Sinhalese fonts available on the site
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355 <http://www.metta.lk/fonts/> are released under GNU GPL, or,
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356 precisely, "Public Domain under GNU Licence
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357 Produced by DMS
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358 Electronics for The Sri Lanka Tipitaka Project" (taken from the font
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359 comment), and took the effort of recoding the font to Unicode.
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360
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361 Sinhala (U+0D80-U+0DFF)
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362
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363
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364 * Daniel Shurovich Chirkov <dansh AT chirkov.com>
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365
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366 Dan Chirkov updated the FreeSerif font with the missing Cyrillic
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367 glyphs needed for conformance to Unicode 3.2. The effort is part of
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368 the Slavjanskij package for Mac OS X,
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369 <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18680>.
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370
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371 Cyrillic (U+0400-U+04FF)
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372
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373
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374 * Denis Jacquerye <moyogo AT gmail.com>
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375
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376 Denis Jacquerye added new glyphs and corrected existing ones in the
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377 Latin Extended-B and IPA Extensions ranges.
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378
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379 Latin Extended-B (U+0180-U+024F)
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380 IPA Extensions (U+0250-U+02AF)
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381
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382
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383 * K.H. Hussain <hussain AT kfri.org> and R. Chitrajan
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384
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385 `Rachana' in Malayalam means `to write', `to create'. Rachana Akshara Vedi,
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386 a team of socially committed information technology professionals and
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387 philologists, has applied developments in computer technology and desktop
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388 publishing to resurrect the Malayalam language from the disorder,
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389 fragmentation and degeneration it had suffered since the attempt to adapt
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390 the Malayalam script for using with a regular mechanical typewriter, which
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391 took place in 1967-69. K.H. Hussein at the Kerala Forest Research Institute
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392 has released "Rachana Normal" fonts with approximately 900 glyphs required
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393 to typeset traditional Malayalam. R. Chitrajan apparently encoded the
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394 glyphs in the OpenType table.
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395
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396 In 2008, the Malayalam ranges in FreeSerif were updated under the advise
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397 and supervision of Hiran Venugopalan of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing,
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398 to reflect the revised edition Rachana_04.
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399
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400 Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F)
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401
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402
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403 * Solaiman Karim <solaiman AT ekushey.org>
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404
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405 Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF)
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406
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407 Solaiman Karim has developed several OpenType Bangla fonts and
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408 released them under GNU GPL on <http://www.ekushey.org>.
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409
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410
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411 * Sonali Sonania <sonalisonania AT gmail.com> and Monika Shah
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412 <monikapatira AT gmail.com>
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413
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414 Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F)
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415 Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF)
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416
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417 Glyphs were drawn by Cyberscape Multimedia Ltd., #101,Mahalakshmi
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418 Mansion 21st Main 22nd "A" Cross Banashankari 2nd stage Banglore
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419 560070, India. Converted to OTF by IndicTrans Team, Powai, Mumbai,
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420 lead by Prof. Jitendra Shah. Maintained by Monika Shah and Sonali
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421 Sonania of janabhaaratii Team, C-DAC, Mumbai. This font is released
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422 under GPL by Dr. Alka Irani and Prof Jitendra Shah, janabhaaratii
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423 Team, C-DAC, Mumabi. janabhaaratii is localisation project at C-DAC
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424 Mumbai (formerly National Centre for Software Technology); funded by
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425 TDIL, Govt. of India. Contact:monika_shah AT lycos.com,
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426 sonalisonania AT yahoo.com, jitendras AT vsnl.com, alka AT ncst.ernet.in.
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427 website: www.janabhaaratii.org.in.
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428
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429
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430 * Pravin Satpute <pravin_ind21 AT hotmail.com>, Bageshri Salvi
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431 <sbagrshri AT yahoo.co.in>, Rahul Bhalerao <rahul_pb_india AT
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432 yahoo.com> and Sandeep Shedmake <surgs2k47 AT yahoo.co.in>
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433
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434 Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F)
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435 Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF)
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436 Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F)
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437 Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F)
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438 Tamil (U+0B80-U+0BFF)
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439
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440 In December 2005 the team at www.gnowledge.org released a set of two
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441 Unicode pan-Indic fonts: "Samyak" and "Samyak Sans". "Samyak" font
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442 belongs to serif style and is an original work of the team; "Samyak
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443 Sans" font belongs to sans serif style and is actually a compilation
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444 of already released Indic fonts (Gargi, Padma, Mukti, Utkal, Akruti
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445 and ThendralUni). Both fonts are based on Unicode standard. You can
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446 download the font files (released under GNU/GPL License) from
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447 http://www.gnowledge.org/Gnoware/localization/font.htm
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448
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449
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450 * Kulbir Singh Thind
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451
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452 Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F)
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453
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454 Dr. Kulbir Singh Thind designed a set of Gurmukhi Unicode fonts,
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455 AnmolUni and AnmolUni-Bold, which are available under the terms of GNU
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456 Generel Public Licens from the Punjabu Computing Resource Center,
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457 http://guca.sourceforge.net/typography/fonts/anmoluni/.
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458
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459
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460 * Gia Shervashidze <giasher AT telenet.ge>
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462 Georgian (U+10A0-U+10FF)
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463
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464 Starting in mid-1990s, Gia Shervashidze designed many
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465 Unicode-compliant Georgian fonts: Times New Roman Georgian, Arial
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466 Georgian, Courier New Georgian. His work on Georgian localization can
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467 be reached at http://www.gia.ge/.
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468
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469
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470 * Primož Peterlin <primoz.peterlin AT biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
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471
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472 Primož Peterlin filled in missing glyphs here and there (e.g. Latin
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473 Extended-B and IPA Extensions ranges in the FreeMono familiy), and
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474 created the following UCS blocks:
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475
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476 Latin Extended-B (U+0180-U+024F)
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477 IPA Extensions (U+0250-U+02AF)
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478 Arrows (U+2190-U+21FF)
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479 Box Drawing (U+2500-U+257F)
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480 Block Elements (U+2580-U+259F)
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481 Geometrical Shapes (U+25A0-U+25FF)
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482
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483 * Mark Williamson
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484
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485 Made the MPH 2 Damase font, from which
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486 Hanunóo (U+1720-U+173F)
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487 Buginese (U+1A00-U+1A1F)
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488 Tai Le (U+1950-U+197F)
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489 Ugaritic (U+10380-U+1039F)
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490 Old Persian (U+103A0-U+103DF)
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491
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492 * Jacob Poon
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493
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494 Submitted a very thorough survey of glyph problems and other suggestions.
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495
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496 * Alexey Kryukov
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497
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498 Made the TemporaLCGUni fonts, based on the URW++ fonts, from which at one
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499 point FreeSerif Cyrillic, and some of the Greek, was drawn. He also provided
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500 valuable direction about Cyrillic and Greek typesetting.
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501
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502 * George Douros
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503
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504 The creator of several fonts focusing on ancient scripts and symbols.
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505 Many of the glyphs are created by making outlines from scanned images
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506 of ancient sources.
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507
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508 Aegean: Phoenecian
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509 Analecta: Gothic (U+10330-U+1034F)
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510 Musical: Byzantine & Western
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511 Unicode: many Miscellaneous Symbols, Miscellaneous Technical,
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512 supplemental Symbols, and Mathematical Alphanumeric symbols,
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513 Mah Jong, and the outline of the Domino.
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514
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515 * Daniel Johnson
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516
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517 Created by hand a Cherokee range specially for FreeFont to be "in line with
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518 the classic Cherokee typefaces used in 19th century printing", but also to
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519 fit well with ranges previously in FreeFont.
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520 Cherokee (U+13A0-U+13FF)
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521
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522 Notes:
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523
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524 *: The glyph collection looks license-compatible, but its author has
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525 not yet replied and agreed on their work being used in part of
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526 this glyph collection.
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527
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