These are Free UCS Outline Fonts converted to the subfont format.
This "README" contains the original README AUTHORS CREDITS COPYING
files.
Federico G. Benavento <[email protected]>
January 2008
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Summary: This project aims to privide a set of free scalable (i.e.,
OpenType) fonts covering the ISO 10646/Unicode UCS (Universal
Character Set).
WHY DO WE NEED FREE SCALABLE UCS FONTS?
A large number of free software users switched from free X11 bitmapped
fonts to proprietary Microsoft Truetype fonts, as a) they used to be
freely downloaded from Microsoft Typography page
<http://www.microsoft.com/typography/free.htm>, b) they contain a more
or less decent subsed of the ISO 10646 UCS (Universal Character Set),
c) they are high-quality, well hinted scalable Truetype fonts, and d)
Freetype <http://www.freetype.org/>, a free high-quality Truetype font
renderer exists and has been integrated into the latest release of
XFree86, the free X11 server.
Building a dependence on non-free software, even a niche one like
fonts, is dangerous. Microsoft Truetype core fonts are not free, they
are just costless. For now, at least. Citing the TrueType core fonts
for the Web FAQ <http://www.microsoft.com/typography/faq/faq8.htm>:
"You may only redistribute the fonts in their original form (.exe or
.sit.hqx) and with their original file name from your Web site or
intranet site. You must not supply the fonts, or any derivative fonts
based on them, in any form that adds value to commercial products,
such as CD-ROM or disk based multimedia programs, application software
or utilities." As of August 2002, however, the fonts are not anymore
available on the Web, which makes the situation clearer.
Aren't there any free high-quality scalable fonts? Yes, there are.
URW++, a German digital typefoundry, released their own version of the
35 Postscript Type 1 core fonts under GPL as their donation to the
Ghostscript project <http://www.gimp.org/fonts.html>. The Wadalab
Kanji comittee has produced Type 1 font files with thousands of
filigree Japanese glyphs <ftp://ftp.ipl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/pub/Font/>.
Yannis Haralambous has drawn beautiful glyphs for the Omega
typesetting system <http://omega.cse.unsw.edu.au:8080/>. And so on.
Scattered around the internet there are numerous other free resources
for other national scripts, many of them aiming to be a suitable match
for Latin fonts like Times or Helvetica.
WHAT DO WE PLAN TO ACHIEVE, AND HOW?
Our aim is to collect available resources, fill in the missing pieces,
and provide a set of free high-quality scalable (Opentype) UCS fonts,
released under GNU General Public License.
Free UCS scalable fonts will cover the following character sets
* ISO 8859 parts 1-15 * CEN MES-3 European Unicode Subset
http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/cwa13873.pdf
* IBM/Microsoft code pages 437, 850, 852, 1250, 1252 and more *
Microsoft/Adobe Windows Glyph List 4 (WGL4)
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/opentype/appendices/wgl4.html
* KOI8-R and KOI8-RU * DEC VT100 graphics symbols * International
Phonetic Alphabet * Arabic, Hebrew, Armenian, Georgian, Ethiopian,
Thai and Lao alphabets,
including Arabic presentation forms A/B
* Japanese Katakana and Hiragana * mathematical symbols, including the
whole TeX repertoire of symbols * APL symbols
etc.
A free outline font editor, George Williams's FontForge
<http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/> will be used for creating new
glyphs.
Which font shapes should be made? As historical style terms like
Renaissance or Baroque letterforms cannot be applied beyond
Latin/Cyrillic/Greek scripts to any greater extent than Kufi or Nashki
can be applied beyond Arabic script, a smaller subset of styles will
be made: one monospaced and two proportional (one with uniform stroke
and one with modulated) will be made at the start.
In the beginning, however, we don't believe that Truetype hinting will
be good enough to compete with neither the hand-crafted bitmapped
fonts at small sizes, nor with commercial TrueType fonts. A companion
program for modifying the TrueType font tables, TtfMod, is in the
works, though: <http://pfaedit.sourceforge.net/TtfMod/>. For
applications like xterm, users are referred to the existing UCS bitmap
fonts, <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html>.
LICENSING
Free UCS scalable fonts is free software; you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.
The fonts are distributed in the hope that they will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
02110-1301, USA.
As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this font,
and embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into the
document, this font does not by itself cause the resulting document to
be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not
however invalidate any other reasons why the document might be covered
by the GNU General Public License. If you modify this font, you may
extend this exception to your version of the font, but you are not
obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this
exception statement from your version.
WHAT DO THE FILE SUFFICES MEAN?
The files with .sfd (Spline Font Database) are in FontForge's native
format. Please use these if you plan to modify the font files.
FontForge can export these to mostly any existing font file format.
TrueType fonts for immediate consumption are the files with the .ttf
(TrueType Font) suffix. You can use them directly, e.g. with the X
font server.
The files with .ps (PostScript) suffix are not font files at all -
they are merely PostScript files with glyph tables, which can be used
for overview, which glyphs are contained in which font file.
You may have noticed the lacking of PostScript Type 1 (.pfa/.pfb) font
files. Type 1 format does not support large (> 256) encoding vectors,
so they can not be used with ISO 10646 encoding. If your printer
supports it, you can use Type 0 format, though. Please use FontForge
for conversion to Type 0.
Primoz Peterlin, <[email protected]>
Free UCS scalable fonts: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/freefont/
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The free UCS scalable font collection is being maintained by Primo�
Peterlin <primoz.peterlin AT biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>. The folowing list
cites the other contributors that contributed to particular ISO 10646
blocks.
* URW++ Design & Development GmbH <http://www.urwpp.de/>
Basic Latin (U+0041-U+007A) Latin-1 Supplement (U+00C0-U+00FF)
(most) Latin Extended-A (U+0100-U+017F) Spacing Modifier
Letters (U+02B0-U+02FF) Mathematical Operators (U+2200-U+22FF)
(parts) Block Elements (U+2580-U+259F) Dingbats
(U+2700-U+27BF)
* Yannis Haralambous <yannis.haralambous AT enst-bretagne.fr> and John
Plaice <plaice AT omega.cse.unsw.edu.au>
Latin Extended-B (U+0180-U+024F) IPA Extensions
(U+0250-U+02AF) Greek (U+0370-U+03FF) Armenian (U+0530-U+058F)
Hebrew (U+0590-U+05FF) Arabic (U+0600-U+06FF) Currency Symbols
(U+20A0-U+20CF) Arabic Presentation Forms-A (U+FB50-U+FDFF)
Arabic Presentation Forms-B (U+FE70-U+FEFF)
* Young U. Ryu <ryoung AT utdallas.edu>
Arrows (U+2190-U+21FF) Mathematical Symbols (U+2200-U+22FF)
* Valek Filippov <frob AT df.ru>
Cyrillic (U+0400-U+04FF)
* Wadalab Kanji Comittee
Hiragana (U+3040-U+309F) Katakana (U+30A0-U+30FF)
* Angelo Haritsis <ah AT computer.org>
Greek (U+0370-U+03FF)
* Yannis Haralambous and Virach Sornlertlamvanich
Thai (U+0E00-U+0E7F)
* Shaheed R. Haque <srhaque AT iee.org>
Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF)
* Sam Stepanyan <sam AT arminco.com>
Armenian (U+0530-U+058F)
* Mohamed Ishan <ishan AT mitf.f2s.com>
Thaana (U+0780-U+07BF)
* Sushant Kumar Dash <sushant AT writeme.com>
Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F)
* Harsh Kumar <harshkumar AT vsnl.com>
Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F) Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF) Gurmukhi
(U+0A00-U+0A7F) Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF)
* Prasad A. Chodavarapu <chprasad AT hotmail.com>
Telugu (U+0C00-U+0C7F)
* Frans Velthuis <velthuis AT rc.rug.nl> and Anshuman Pandey
<apandey AT u.washington.edu>
Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F)
* Hardip Singh Pannu <HSPannu AT aol.com>
Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F)
* Jeroen Hellingman <jehe AT kabelfoon.nl>
Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F) Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F)
* Thomas Ridgeway <email needed>
Tamil (U+0B80-U+0BFF)
* Berhanu Beyene <1beyene AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>,
Prof. Dr. Manfred Kudlek <kudlek AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>,
Olaf Kummer <kummer AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>, and Jochen
Metzinger <?>
Ethiopic (U+1200-U+137F)
* Maxim Iorsh <iorsh AT users.sourceforge.net>
Hebrew (U+0590-U+05FF)
* Vyacheslav Dikonov <sdiconov AT mail.ru>
Syriac (U+0700-U+074A) Braille (U+2800-U+28FF)
* Panayotis Katsaloulis <panayotis AT panayotis.com>
Greek Extended (U+1F00-U+1FFF)
* M.S. Sridhar <mssridhar AT vsnl.com>
Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F) Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF) Gurmukhi
(U+0A00-U+0A7F) Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF) Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F)
Tamil (U+0B80-U+0BFF) Telugu (U+0C00-U+0C7F) Kannada
(U+0C80-U+0CFF) Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F)
* DMS Electronics, The Sri Lanka Tipitaka Project, and Noah Levitt
<nlevitt AT columbia.edu>
Sinhala (U+0D80-U+0DFF)
* Dan Shurovich Chirkov <dansh AT chirkov.com>
Cyrillic (U+0400-U+04FF)
* Abbas Izad <abbasizad AT hotmail.com>
Arabic (U+0600-U+06FF) Arabic Presentation Forms-A
(U+FB50-U+FDFF) Arabic Presentation Forms-B (U+FE70-U+FEFF)
* Denis Jacquerye <moyogo AT gmail.com>
Latin Extended-B (U+0180-U+024F) IPA Extensions
(U+0250-U+02AF)
* K.H. Hussain <hussain AT kfri.org> and R. Chitrajan
Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F)
* Solaiman Karim <solaiman AT ekushey.org>
Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF)
Please see the CREDITS file for details on who contributed particular
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This file lists the contributors and contributions to the free UCS
scalable font project.
* URW++ Design & Development GmbH <http://www.urwpp.de/>
URW++ donated a set of 35 core PostScript Type 1 fonts to the
Ghostscript project <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/>, to be available
under the terms of GNU General Public License (GPL).
Basic Latin (U+0041-U+007A) Latin-1 Supplement (U+00C0-U+00FF)
Latin Extended-A (U+0100-U+017F) Spacing Modifier Letters
(U+02B0-U+02FF) Mathematical Operators (U+2200-U+22FF) Block
Elements (U+2580-U+259F) Dingbats (U+2700-U+27BF)
* Yannis Haralambous <yannis.haralambous AT enst-bretagne.fr> and John
Plaice <plaice AT omega.cse.unsw.edu.au>
Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice are the authors of Omega
typesetting system, <http://omega.cse.unsw.edu.au/>. Omega is an
extension of TeX. Its first release, aims primarily at improving
TeX's multilingual abilities. In Omega all characters and pointers
into data-structures are 16-bit wide, instead of 8-bit, thereby
eliminating many of the trivial limitations of TeX. Omega also allows
multiple input and output character sets, and uses programmable
filters to translate from one encoding to another, to perform
contextual analysis, etc. Internally, Omega uses the universal 16-bit
Unicode standard character set, based on ISO-10646. These
improvements not only make it a lot easier for TeX users to cope with
multiple or complex languages, like Arabic, Indic, Khmer, Chinese,
Japanese or Korean, in one document, but will also form the basis for
future developments in other areas, such as native color support and
hypertext features. ... Fonts for UT1 (omlgc family) and UT2 (omah
family) are under development: these fonts are in PostScript format
and visually close to Times and Helvetica font families. (from the
Omega WWW site). Omega fonts are available subject to GPL
<http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/omegafonts.html>.
Latin Extended-B (U+0180-U+024F) IPA Extensions
(U+0250-U+02AF) Greek (U+0370-U+03FF) Armenian (U+0530-U+058F)
Hebrew (U+0590-U+05FF) Arabic (U+0600-U+06FF) Currency Symbols
(U+20A0-U+20CF) Arabic Presentation Forms-A (U+FB50-U+FDFF)
Arabic Presentation Forms-B (U+FE70-U+FEFF)
* Valek Filippov <frob AT df.ru>
Valek Filippov added Cyrillic glyphs and composite Latin Extended A to
the whole set of the abovementioned URW set of 35 PostScript core
fonts, <ftp://ftp.gnome.ru/fonts/urw/>. The fonts are available under
GPL.
Latin Extended-A (U+0100-U+017F) Cyrillic (U+0400-U+04FF)
* Wadalab Kanji Comittee
Between April 1990 and March 1992, Wadalab Kanji Comittee put together
a series of scalable font files with Japanese scripts, in four forms:
Sai Micho, Chu Mincho, Cho Kaku and Saimaru. The font files are
written in custom file format, while tools for conversion into
Metafont and PostScript Type 1 are also supplied. The Wadalab Kanji
Comittee has later been dismissed, and the resulting files can be now
found on the FTP server of the Depertment of Mathematical Engineering
and Information Physics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo
<ftp://ftp.ipl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Font/>.
Hiragana (U+3040-U+309F) Katakana (U+30A0-U+30FF)
* Young U. Ryu <ryoung AT utdallas.edu>
Young Ryu is the author of Txfonts, a set of mathematical symbols
designed to accompany text typeset in Times or its variants. In the
documentation, Young adresses the design of mathematical symbols: "The
Adobe Times fonts are thicker than the CM fonts. Designing math fonts
for Times based on the rule thickness of Times = , , + , / , < , etc.
would result in too thick math symbols, in my opinion. In the TX
fonts, these glyphs are thinner than those of original Times fonts.
That is, the rule thickness of these glyphs is around 85% of that of
the Times fonts, but still thicker than that of the CM fonts." TX
fonts are are distributed under the GNU public license (GPL).
Pointers to their location are available on
<http://www.utdallas.edu/~ryoung/txfonts/>.
Arrows (U+2190-U+21FF) Mathematical Symbols (U+2200-U+22FF)
* Angelo Haritsis <ah AT computer.org>
Angelo Haritsis has compiled a set of Greek Type 1 fonts, available on
<ftp://ftp.hellug.gr/pub/unix/linux/GREEK/fonts/greekXfonts-Type1-1.1.tgz>.
The glyphs from this source has been used to compose Greek glyphs in
FreeSans and FreeMono.
Angelo's licence says: "You can enjoy free use of these fonts for
educational or commercial purposes. All derived works should include
this paragraph. If you want to change something please let me have
your changes (via email) so that they can go into the next version.
You can also send comments etc to the above address."
Greek (U+0370-U+03FF)
* Yannis Haralambous and Virach Sornlertlamvanich
In 1999, Yannis Haralambous and Virach Sornlertlamvanich made a set of
glyphs covering the Thai national standard NF3, in both upright and
slanted shape. The collection of glyphs have been made part of GNU
intlfonts 1.2 package and is available on
<ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/intlfonts/> under GPL.
Thai (U+0E00-U+0E7F)
* Shaheed R. Haque <srhaque AT iee.org>
Shaheed Haque has developed a basic set of basic Bengali glyphs
(without ligatures), using ISO10646 encoding. They are available
under the XFree86 license at
<http://www.btinternet.com/~shaheedhaque/>.
Copyright (C) 2001 S.R.Haque <srhaque AT iee.org>. All Rights
Reserved.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL S.R.HAQUE BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Except as contained in this notice, the name of S.R.Haque shall not be
used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other
dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from
S.R.Haque.
Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF)
* Sam Stepanyan <sam AT arminco.com>
Sam Stepanyan created a set of Armenian sans serif glyphs visually
compatible with Helvetica or Arial. Available on
<http://www.editum.com.ar/mashtots/html/fonts/ara.tar.gz>. On
2002-01-24, Sam writes: "Arial Armenian font is free for
non-commercial use, so it is OK to use under GPL license."
Armenian (U+0530-U+058F)
* Mohamed Ishan <ishan AT mitf.f2s.com>
Mohamed Ishan has started a Thaana Unicode Project
<http://thaana.sourceforge.net/> and among other things created a
couple of Thaana fonts, available under FDL or BDF license.
Thaana (U+0780-U+07BF)
* Sushant Kumar Dash <sushant AT writeme.com> (*)
Sushant Dash has created a font in his mother tongue, Oriya. As he
states on his web page <http://members.tripod.com/~sushantdash/>:
"Please feel free to foreword this mail to your Oriya friends. No
copyright law is applied for this font. It is totally free!!! Feel
free to modify this using any font editing tools. This is designed
for people like me, who are away from Orissa and want to write letters
home using Computers, but suffer due to unavailability of Oriya
fonts.(Or the cost of the available packages are too much)."
Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F)
* Harsh Kumar <harshkumar AT vsnl.com>
Harsh Kumar has started BharatBhasha <http://www.bharatbhasha.net/> -
an effort to provide "FREE software, Tutorial, Source Codes etc.
available for working in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Gurmukhi and
Bangla. You can type text, write Web pages or develop Indian
Languages Applications on Windows and on Linux. We also offer FREE
help to users, enthusiasts and software developers for their work in
Indian languages."
Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F) Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF) Gurmukhi
(U+0A00-U+0A7F) Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF)
* Prasad A. Chodavarapu <chprasad AT hotmail.com>
Prasad A. Chodavarapu created Tikkana, a Telugu font available in Type
1 and TrueType format on <http://chaitanya.bhaavana.net/fonts/>.
Tikkana exceeds the Unicode Telugu range with some composite glyphs.
Available under the GNU General Public License.
Telugu (U+0C00-U+0C7F)
* Frans Velthuis <velthuis AT rc.rug.nl> and Anshuman Pandey
<apandey AT u.washington.edu>
In 1991, Frans Velthuis from the Groningen University, The
Netherlands, released a Devanagari font as Metafont source, available
under the terms of GNU GPL. Later, Anshuman Pandey from the
Washington University, Seattle, USA, took over the maintenance of
font. Fonts can be found on CTAN,
<ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/devanagari/>. I converted
the font to Type 1 format using P-B�ter Szab�'s TeXtrace-A program
<http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/textrace/> and removed some redundant
control points with PfaEdit.
Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F)
* Hardip Singh Pannu <HSPannu AT aol.com>
In 1991, Hardip Singh Pannu has created a free Gurmukhi TrueType font,
available as regular, bold, oblique and bold oblique form. Its
license says "Please remember that these fonts are copyrighted (by me)
and are for non-profit use only."
Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F)
* Jeroen Hellingman <jehe AT kabelfoon.nl>
Jeroen Hellingman created a set of Malayalam metafonts in 1994, and a
set of Oriya metafonts in 1996. Malayalam fonts were created as
uniform stroke only, while Oriya metafonts exist in both uniform and
modulated stroke. From private communication: "It is my intention to
release the fonts under GPL, but not all copies around have this
notice on them." Metafonts can be found on CTAN,
<ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/oriya/> and
<ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/malayalam/>.
Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F) Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F)
* Thomas Ridgeway <> (*)
Thomas Ridgeway, then at the Humanities And Arts Computing Center,
Washington University, Seattle, USA, (now defunct), created a Tamil
metafont in 1990. Anshuman Pandey from the same university took over
the maintenance of font. Fonts can be found at CTAN,
<ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/tamil/wntamil/>.
Tamil (U+0B80-U+0BFF)
* Berhanu Beyene <1beyene AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>,
Prof. Dr. Manfred Kudlek <kudlek AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>,
Olaf Kummer <kummer AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>, and Jochen
Metzinger <?>
Beyene, Kudlek, Kummer and Metzinger from the Theoretical Foundations
of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, prepared a set of Ethiopic
metafonts, found on
<ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/ethiopia/ethiop/>. They also
maintain home page on the Ethiopic font project,
<http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/mitarbeiter/wimis/kummer/ethiop_eng.html>,
and can be reached at <ethiop AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>. The
current version of fonts is 0.7 (1998), and they are released under
GNU GPL. I converted the fonts to Type 1 format using P-B�ter
Szab�'s TeXtrace-A program <http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/textrace/> and
removed some redundant control points with PfaEdit.
Ethiopic (U+1200-U+137F)
* Maxim Iorsh <iorsh AT users.sourceforge.net>
In 2002, Maxim Iorsh started the Culmus project, aiming at providing
Hebrew-speaking Linux and Unix community with a basic collection of
Hebrew fonts for X Windows. The fonts are visually compatible with
URW++ Century Schoolbook L, URW++ Nimbus Sans L and URW++ Nimbus Mono
L families, respectively, and are released under GNU GPL license. See
also <http://culmus.sourceforge.net/>.
Hebrew (U+0590-U+05FF)
* Panayotis Katsaloulis <panayotis AT panayotis.com>
Panayotis Katsaloulis helped fixing Greek accents in the Greek
Extended area.
Greek Extended (U+1F00-U+1FFF)
* Vyacheslav Dikonov <sdiconov AT mail.ru>
Vyacheslav Dikonov made a Braille unicode font that could be merged
with the UCS fonts to fill the 2800-28FF range completely. (uniform
scaling is possible to adapt it to any cell size). He also
contributed a free syriac font, whose glyphs (about half of them) are
borrowed from the "Carlo Ator" font freely downloadable from
<http://www.aacf.asso.fr/>. Vyacheslav also filled in a few missing
spots in the U+2000-U+27FF area, e.g. the box drawing section, sets
of subscript and superscript digits and capital Roman numbers.
Syriac (U+0700-U+074A) Box Drawing (U+2500-U+257F) Braille
(U+2800-U+28FF)
* M.S. Sridhar <mssridhar AT vsnl.com>
M/S Cyberscape Multimedia Limited, Mumbai, developers of Akruti
Software for Indian Languages (http://www.akruti.com/), have released
a set of TTF fonts for nine Indian scripts (Devanagari, Gujarati,
Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Oriya, and Gurumukhi)
under the GNU General Public License (GPL). You can download the
fonts from the Free Software Foundation of India WWW site
(http://www.gnu.org.in/software/software.html#akruti) or from the
Akruti website.
For any further information or assistance regarding these fonts,
please contact mssridhar AT vsnl.com.
Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F) Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF) Gurmukhi
(U+0A00-U+0A7F) Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF) Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F)
Tamil (U+0B80-U+0BFF) Telugu (U+0C00-U+0C7F) Kannada
(U+0C80-U+0CFF) Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F)
* DMS Electronics, The Sri Lanka Tipitaka Project, and Noah Levitt
<nlevitt AT columbia.edu>
Noah Levitt found out that the Sinhalese fonts available on the site
<http://www.metta.lk/fonts/> are released under GNU GPL, or,
precisely, "Public Domain under GNU Licence
Produced by DMS
Electronics for The Sri Lanka Tipitaka Project" (taken from the font
comment), and took the effort of recoding the font to Unicode.
Sinhala (U+0D80-U+0DFF)
* Daniel Shurovich Chirkov <dansh AT chirkov.com>
Dan Chirkov updated the FreeSerif font with the missing Cyrillic
glyphs needed for conformance to Unicode 3.2. The effort is part of
the Slavjanskij package for Mac OS X,
<http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18680>.
Cyrillic (U+0400-U+04FF)
* Denis Jacquerye <moyogo AT gmail.com>
Denis Jacquerye added new glyphs and corrected existing ones in the
Latin Extended-B and IPA Extensions ranges.
Latin Extended-B (U+0180-U+024F) IPA Extensions
(U+0250-U+02AF)
* K.H. Hussain <hussain AT kfri.org> and R. Chitrajan
`Rachana' in Malayalam means `to write', `to create'. Rachana Akshara
Vedi, a team of socially committed information technology
professionals and philologists, has applied developments in computer
technology and desktop publishing to resurrect the Malayalam language
from the disorder, fragmentation and degeneration it had suffered
since the attempt to adapt the Malayalam script for using with a
regular mechanical typewriter, which took place in 1967-69. K.H.
Hussein at the Kerala Forest Research Institute has released "Rachana
Normal" fonts with approximately 900 glyphs required to typeset
traditional Malayalam. R. Chitrajan apparently encoded the glyphs in
the OpenType table.
Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F)
* Solaiman Karim <solaiman AT ekushey.org>
Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF)
Solaiman Karim has developed several OpenType Bangla fonts and
released them under GNU GPL on www.ekushey.org.
* Primož Peterlin <primoz.peterlin AT biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
Primož Peterlin filled in missing glyphs here and there (e.g. Latin
Extended-B and IPA Extensions ranges in the FreeMono familiy), and
created the following UCS blocks:
Latin Extended-B (U+0180-U+024F) IPA Extensions
(U+0250-U+02AF) Arrows (U+2190-U+21FF) Box Drawing
(U+2500-U+257F) Block Elements (U+2580-U+259F) Geometrical
Shapes (U+25A0-U+25FF)
Notes:
*: The glyph collection looks license-compatible, but its author has
not yet replied and agreed on his/her work being used in part of
this glyph collection.
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