Devanagari Font Support For Linux Dipali B. Choudhary Center For Indian Language Technologies 12 June 2002
Center For Indian Language Technologies Objective Give devanagari font support on linux Unicode devanagari font. 12 June 2002 Center For Indian Language Technologies
Center For Indian Language Technologies Arambh Font Arambh font uses ASCII encoding i.e. iso8859 Added extra characters required in Damle Grammer . 12 June 2002 Center For Indian Language Technologies
Center For Indian Language Technologies Why Unicode? To avoid mutually incompatible ASCII extensions. Write different scripts in one document. 12 June 2002 Center For Indian Language Technologies
Center For Indian Language Technologies Encoding Formats Sequence of characters are represented in different encoding formats. UTF-32 UTF-16 UTF-8 12 June 2002 Center For Indian Language Technologies
Center For Indian Language Technologies UTF-8 U-00000000 - U-0000007F 0xxxxxxx U-00000080 - U-000007FF 110xxxxx 10xxxxxx U-00000800 - U-0000FFFF 1110xxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx U-00010000 - U-001FFFFF 11110xxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx U-00200000 - U-03FFFFFF 111110xx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx U-04000000 - U-7FFFFFFF 1111110x 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx Ex. character U+2260 = 0010 0010 0110 0000 (not equal to) is encoded as: 11100010 10001001 10100000 = 0xE2 0x89 0xA0 12 June 2002 Center For Indian Language Technologies
Center For Indian Language Technologies Conclusion Activating UTF-8 require locale machanism. Support for Indic text formatting algorithms. 12 June 2002 Center For Indian Language Technologies
Center For Indian Language Technologies Thank You. 12 June 2002 Center For Indian Language Technologies