[INDOLOGY] Font with Brahmi characters

[Dominik Wujastyk]

Andrew Glass reminds me that Stefan Baums (also an INDOLOGY committee
member) was the primary author on the Brahmi proposal which led to the
inclusion of Brahmi in Unicode. I produced the original font which Michael
supplemented.

Thanks for the update, Andrew.
Dominik



On 3 August 2014 17:08, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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