Lohit Open Type font for Kannada

[:http://fedora.redhat.com/|Fedora 6] has a new Kannada Unicode (Opentype) font released with the distribution. The font seems to be Kannada the counterpart of Lohit series of fonts for Indian languages.

Recently, a friend of mine brought this to my attention. But, like several other Opentype fonts for Kannada, this one is buggy as well. A close look at the font revealed several critical bugs.

The good thing, though, is that the font is released under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL|GPL]. Anyone can work on it, modify and redistribute it.

Here's a screen shot with a comparison of words typed using Lohit and other fonts:

lohit font

Interested folks can [:http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/devel/s390/fonts-kannada-2.0.6-1.noarch.html|download the font from here].

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