[: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…
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The passion people here in India seem to have for Cricket goes without saying. Catching the glimpse of a giant size poster of Dhoni in a near-to-remote village last week, I had wondered how much of heroes the Cricket players are made into, here in India (leaving past some real heroes of real life). They get so much of attention, as much money and wishes of almost a billion. But somehow, they always manage to get themselves into a loosing streak…
N R Colony is a very nice locality, except just that getting a broadband connection here is equally tough. For last one week, I've been enjoying living very close to the lovely vegetarian restaurants of Basavanagudi, our usual hang outs of DVG Road, and not-so-polluted air of Bugle rock park. It is back to all-Kannada neighbourhood, which feels more like home (more like Shimoga where I've lived for more years than any other place), but not connected to the Internet all this while.
And why…