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Subject:Re: Font required to display Hindi characters From:Rachna Ganguli <rachna -dot- ganguli -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 5 Sep 2005 23:34:47 +0530
Reposting after a "rap on the knuckles" for not cleaning up the post ....
On 9/5/05, Rachna Ganguli <rachna -dot- ganguli -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> Nothing new here, just thought I' ll add my Indian (Hindi at that)
> point of view. In a past life I too suffered the translation pangs so
> I can really identify with the missing fonts saga.
>
> Sarah, you could try to download some free fonts and install them but
> the chances of your getting the right font are quite random.
>
> You *should* ask the translators for the font that they are using and
> install it on your machine. Or maybe you have a spec sheet that went
> to them that defined which fonts they should use?!
>
> Devanagari is the most commonly used Hindi/Marathi/Sanskrit/Nepali
> script, but there are many fonts. And if what they are using is some
> proprietary font then there is a very scant chance of getting a
> compatible font off the net.
>
> BTW James is right about the classification of Hindi although that,
> IMO, has little to do with the missing fonts problem :-) Hindi and
> most other Indian languages are WYSIWYG, which incidentally is why
> many of us Indians have troubled English spellings and pronunciations.
> But that's another tale ...
>
> Rachna
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