Re: Adding Tamil Unicode support to Bitstream Vera Fonts

[prabu anand <prabu_anand2000 yahoo com>]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. The reason for asking to include
Tamil Unicode range to vera fonts, they can become an
alternative to MS Arial Unicode(by supporting all
known encodings)

Also by this the number of fonts to be distributed by
different distributions can be reduced.

Are there any technical difficulties in supporting
this Unicode Subrange. 

Cheers.,
Prabu

--- Jim Gettys hp com wrote:
> Note that Pango is very happy to merge fonts
> together into font sets.
> So the existing Tamil fonts will work just fine with
> Vera.
> 
> So it isn't clear to me that combining fonts makes
> good sense, unless/until
> the design of the glyphs in the fonts are similar
> enough to improve the
> experience if the fonts are always used together.
> 
> So I suspect that combining them would not be a good
> idea.  At least for
> Pango applications, things should work well as is...
>  (or that is
> my understanding).
>                                - Jim
> 
> --
> Jim Gettys
> Cambridge Research Laboratory
> HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard Company
> Jim Gettys hp com
> 
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