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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:10:04 +0530
From: "Arvindh Rajesh Tamilmani" <arvindht@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] ttf2subf
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> > all this is true, but i don't know of any bitmap fonts with good
> > unicode coverage.
>
> /lib/font/bit/lucm/unicode.9.font ?

Indic glyphs are missing.
Of course Indic support in Unicode is complicated anyway:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html#indic

I am trying out Tamil support in Plan 9 using TUNE.
http://www.tunerfc.tn.gov.in/TUNE-an_introduction.htm

TUNE is a new encoding with its own problems - but atleast I don't
have to worry about glyph reordering and ligatures.  It maps each
Tamil character to one code point.

Arvindh