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