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The Samyak Multilingual font project

At TIFR, we have undertaken an internationalization project , with major concern towards Indic Comtuting Solutions. Till now we have successfully developed Multilingual Fonts, "Samyak", for 7 Indic scripts, which is a milestone in its own. This is now considered to be one of the most successful project of its kind. Soon this will be available as a debian package for linux systems. It works on both linux and windows platform.
 You can visit the project site at :
http://www.gnowledge.org/Gnoware/localization/index.htm

Also visit my page at IndLinux.org:
http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/User:Rahulpb
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  1. Anonymous10:10 AM

    Hi,

    Are samyak fonts packaged for debian?

    or is it added to indic fonts? Would like to know.

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    aamachu

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  2. Unknown1:06 PM

    I am not sure about debian or ubuntu, its packaged for fedora. But yes, someone was talking about debian a long time back.

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  3. Unknown8:59 PM

    Good day Rahul. I want to know if there in licensing requirement involved when Samyakh Oriya font, is commercially used around the world in a multiuser envoirnment.

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