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 to the Unicode standard - that we owe to Michael Everson and Andrew Glass - is something of a milestone for Indic data input.  Similarly all the rare Indic scripts on which Anshuman Pandey has been doing such sterling work, and for which he was awarded a Bulldog Award 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@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@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@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@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

The June 2014 release of the free Unicode font "Unifont" added the Brahmi character set.  Link:

DW

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