Lohit Open Type font for Kannada

Submitted by hpn on November 28, 2006 - 07:47
[: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.no…|download the font from here].
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