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From: "sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" <foss.mailinglists@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 7:57 AM
Subject: [Indlinux-group] Sakal Bharati : a reference font for Indic languages
To: "Indian Linux group ," <indlinux-group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

It appears that the various ministries are discussing to implement a
reference font (OpenType Font) to enable standardization in eGovernance
aspects. More details on the URL below. The link to the disclaimer and,
the text of the "Copyright" part of the font is also passed below.

<quote>

<http://tdil.mit.gov.in/download/SakalBharati.htm>

Sakal Bharati is a Unicode based Open Type font which includes 11
scripts in one font i.e. Assamese, Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati,
Kannada Malayalam, Oriya, Punjabi, Telugu, Tamil & Urdu. It has used
Mono thick (Equal thickness of horizontal stems and vertical stem)
glyphs for all scripts. Same X height for all 11 scripts. There are more
than 3698 glyphs in the Font.


<http://tdil.mit.gov.in/download/SBdisclaimer.htm>

Copyright (c) 2009, TDIL-DIT & CDAC-GIST, INDIA. SakalBharati Normal
Open Type Font. ONLY FOR NON-COMMERCIAL PURPOSES. Not to be distributed
along with any software for commercial purposes without prior written
consent from C-DAC-GIST, Pune.

</quote>

Does anyone have a contact or, know of a method whereby one can obtain
the source file ? If this is a reference font, having access to the
source would benefit everybody.

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Regards,

Sri Ramadoss M