[INDOLOGY] Font with Brahmi characters

[Dominik Wujastyk]

The Unifont glyphs are hideous to look at.  As you say, Andrew, it's really
just a reference font.  CODE2000 is somewhat similar (but without more
recent Unicode additions).  One wouldn't actually want to use these fonts
for rendering any serious written work. They just provide a blueprint that
designers of production fonts can use in future.

I mentioned Unifont because the Brahmi addition
<http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/brahmi/list.htm> to the
Unicode standard - that we owe to Michael Everson and Andrew Glass
<http://www.unicode.org/charts/fonts.html> - is something of a milestone
for Indic data input.  Similarly all the rare Indic scripts on which Anshuman
Pandey <http://anshumanpandey.blogspot.co.at/> has been doing such sterling
work, and for which he was awarded a Bulldog Award
<http://unicode.org/conference/bulldog.html> in 2011.

There have been some requests for help with installing and using this font,
from users here in the INDOLOGY forum.  This is not an issue for the font
designers or creators to address.  Unifont is a TrueType Font. This is a
bog standard type of font. Installing and using it is a routine task, and a
matter for your own local configuration of your computer.  Procedures will
be different on different operating systems.  You need to read your local
help files about installing fonts and keyboard input systems.

Best,
Dominik Wujastyk



On 1 August 2014 23:11, Andrew Ollett <andrew.ollett at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Brahmi glyphs are in the file "unifont_upper-7.0.03.ttf" (since they
> are above the basic multilingual plane). You will need some input method
> (or a character map) to produce the characters.
>
> These glyphs seems to be included just for the sake of completeness, since
> they're very pixellated and the combining characters don't work
> (11038-11045).
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Dipak Bhattacharya <dipak.d2004 at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Somehow I too was not successful. Such failure is rare.
>> Best
>> DB
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Valerie J Roebuck <
>> vjroebuck at btinternet.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Could someone please give me a clue as to how to download the Brahmi
>>> characters from that page?
>>>
>>> Thanks -
>>>
>>> Valerie J Roebuck
>>> Manchester, UK
>>>
>>> On 1 Aug 2014, at 10:30, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>>
>>> The June 2014 release of the free Unicode font "Unifont" added the
>>> Brahmi character set.  Link:
>>>
>>>    - http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html
>>>
>>> DW
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