Dear ttf-indic-fonts maintainer,
the author of the Pothana2000 and Vemana fonts contacted me with
the following clarification:
From: Krishna Desikachary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: bug#302110: ttf-indic-fonts: tikkana font not unicode-compliant
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 16:22:21 -0600
Dear Stephen Baums,
Incidentally I come acroos your message about Tikkana
font not being Unicode compliant, which also contains some
observations about the Pothana2000 font. It is true Tikkana is
a hack of my own pre-unicode version of the Pothana font done
by some users on the east cost of USA. This pre-unicode Pothana
font, although very popular and used by many in North America,
did not conform to any international standard. Standardization
had to wait until a major vendor such as Microsoft started to
support indic unicode fonts in windows. When this happened, I
redid my old Pothana font into unicode-compliant Pothana2000
and placed it public domain. Subsequently, I released it under
GPL. If this font shows it is un-editable, it is not
intentional on my part, the softwares I am using to create this
font is setting that flag. You are free to turn off that flag
to make it editable. Since it is now released under GPL, only
the licensing fconditions of GPL apply to it irrespective of
other earlier statements in the manual that accomanies it. The
short version of GPL licensing is embedded in the font.
I recetly revised this font to improve its appearance
and for better rendering of some complex ligatures, and also
added another script faced font named Vemana, also under GPL,
to the distribution. This package is now available from my
website www://kavya-nandanam.com. I hope this clears the points
raised in your message.
regards,
k.Desikachary
In the light of this, please remove the hackedâup, preâUnicode
Tikkana font and replace it with the newest versions of
Pothana2000 and Vemana from the website given above, and set the
editable flag on those fonts using Fontforge or some other tool.
Many thanks,
Stefan Baums
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Stefan Baums
Asian Languages and Literature
University of Washington
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