From: Raja R Harinath <harinath@cs.umn.edu>
Subject: Re: no font shown with tamil.el
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 17:11:23 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d9znozvkro.fsf@bose.cs.umn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E18jP18-0000T1-00@fencepost.gnu.org
Hi,
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> > Would you please show me the license of these fonts? I can check if
> > it is a free software license. If these are not free, we cannot use
> > them in Emacs or recommend them to Emacs users.
>
> > Also, what is ISFOC? Is it in India? Can you tell me how to contact
> > the people there? I am on the way to India now, and if these are not
> > free, I may be able to convince them to make them free.
>
> Kawabata-san <batta@beige.ocn.ne.jp>, please explain about
> these issues.
>
> This is really the crucial information. If these licenses are free,
> then we have no problem. There is no need to work on replacing them
> if they are ok to use.
>
> On the other hand, if these licenses are NOT free, and if ISFOC is in
> India, and if I can meet with them while I am here, maybe I can do
> some good.
ISFOC is a standard from C-DAC (http://cdacindia.com).
http://www.cdacindia.com/html/gist/standard/isfoc.asp
ISFOC is a glyph-based standard, rather than a character-based
standard -- thus side-stepping the various rendering issues discussed
in the Unicode standard. The idea essentially is to avoid the
huge-ligature-table problem in rendering Unicode encoded fonts, but
instead standardize on a fixed set of pre-rendered glyph-pieces.
This appears to be a custom solution and needs special case code like
in devan-util.el, tamil-util.el to compose unicode characters by
translation to sequences of ISFOC glyphs.
- Hari
--
Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ harinath@cs.umn.edu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-13 23:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-11 18:01 no font shown with tamil.el Robert J. Chassell
2003-02-12 0:34 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-02-12 1:09 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-02-12 8:33 ` Jason Rumney
2003-02-12 18:17 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-02-12 19:51 ` Jason Rumney
2003-02-12 20:31 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-02-12 23:07 ` Raja R Harinath
2003-02-13 2:27 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-02-13 22:50 ` Raja R Harinath
2003-02-13 0:36 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-02-13 1:44 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-02-13 2:16 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-02-13 2:54 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-02-12 20:33 ` Richard Stallman
2003-02-13 0:13 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-02-13 19:27 ` Richard Stallman
2003-02-13 23:11 ` Raja R Harinath [this message]
2003-02-13 23:47 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-02-14 11:00 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-02-14 14:35 ` No malayalam glyphs in language/mlm-util.el Robert J. Chassell
2003-02-14 19:58 ` Raja R Harinath
2003-02-14 21:50 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-02-14 22:20 ` Raja R Harinath
2003-02-15 0:43 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-02-15 3:16 ` Ramakrishnan M
2003-02-15 3:34 ` Ramakrishnan M
2003-02-15 15:40 ` Robert J. Chassell
2003-02-15 16:00 ` Ramakrishnan M
2003-02-15 17:54 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-02-15 18:29 ` Raja R Harinath
2003-02-16 5:27 ` Ramakrishnan M
2003-02-17 6:26 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-02-17 14:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-02-18 11:51 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-02-19 6:16 ` Kenichi Handa
[not found] ` <87smugyh08.fsf@vsnl.net>
2003-02-24 1:46 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-02-20 11:09 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-02-20 12:26 ` Juanma Barranquero
2003-02-20 12:50 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-02-21 21:43 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <1045400184.16187.694.camel@uma>
[not found] ` <1045406040.597.28.camel@debian>
2003-02-17 20:36 ` Richard Stallman
2003-02-17 23:43 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-02-14 11:15 ` no font shown with tamil.el Richard Stallman
2003-02-14 10:59 ` 川幡 太一
2003-02-15 7:44 ` Richard Stallman
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