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                         GNU FreeFont Credits
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This file lists contributors and contributions to the GNU FreeFont project.
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* URW++ Design & Development GmbH <http://www.urwpp.de/>
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URW++ donated a set of 35 core PostScript Type 1 fonts to the
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Ghostscript project <http://www.ghostscript.com/>, to be available
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under the terms of GNU General Public License (GPL).
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	Basic Latin				(U+0041-U+007A)
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	Latin-1 Supplement                      (U+00C0-U+00FF)
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	Latin Extended-A                        (U+0100-U+017F)
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	Spacing Modifier Letters		(U+02B0-U+02FF)
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	Mathematical Operators			(U+2200-U+22FF)
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	Block Elements				(U+2580-U+259F)
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	Dingbats				(U+2700-U+27BF)
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* Yannis Haralambous <yannis.haralambous AT enst-bretagne.fr> and John
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  Plaice <plaice AT omega.cse.unsw.edu.au>
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Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice are the authors of Omega typesetting
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system, <http://omega.enstb.org/>. Omega is an extension of TeX.
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Its first release, aims primarily at improving TeX's multilingual abilities.
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In Omega all characters and pointers into data-structures are 16-bit wide,
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instead of 8-bit, thereby eliminating many of the trivial limitations of TeX.
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Omega also allows multiple input and output character sets, and uses
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programmable filters to translate from one encoding to another, to perform
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contextual analysis, etc. Internally, Omega uses the universal 16-bit Unicode
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standard character set, based on ISO-10646. These improvements not only make
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it a lot easier for TeX users to cope with multiple or complex languages,
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like Arabic, Indic, Khmer, Chinese, Japanese or Korean, in one document, but
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will also form the basis for future developments in other areas, such as
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native color support and hypertext features. ... Fonts for UT1 (omlgc family)
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and UT2 (omah family) are under development: these fonts are in PostScript
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format and visually close to Times and Helvetica font families. 
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Omega fonts are available subject to GPL
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	Latin Extended-B                        (U+0180-U+024F)
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	IPA Extensions				(U+0250-U+02AF)
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	Greek					(U+0370-U+03FF)
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	Armenian				(U+0530-U+058F)
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	Hebrew					(U+0590-U+05FF)
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	Arabic					(U+0600-U+06FF)
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	Currency Symbols			(U+20A0-U+20CF)
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	Arabic Presentation Forms-A		(U+FB50-U+FDFF)
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	Arabic Presentation Forms-B		(U+FE70-U+FEFF)
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Current info: <http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=omega>
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* Valek Filippov <frob AT df.ru>
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Valek Filippov added Cyrillic glyphs and composite Latin Extended A to
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the whole set of the abovementioned URW set of 35 PostScript core fonts,
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<ftp://ftp.gnome.ru/fonts/>.  The fonts are available under GPL.
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(The Cyrillic range was since replaced by another font.)
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	Latin Extended-A                        (U+0100-U+017F)
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* Wadalab Kanji Comittee
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Between April 1990 and March 1992, Wadalab Kanji Comittee put together a
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series of scalable font files with Japanese scripts, in four forms:
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Sai Micho, Chu Mincho, Cho Kaku and Saimaru.
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The font files are written in custom file format, while tools for conversion
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into Metafont and PostScript Type 1 are also supplied. The Wadalab Kanji
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Comittee was later dismissed. The resulting files were once found on the FTP
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server of the Department of Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics,
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Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo.  Some of these are available at
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<http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/wadalab>
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	Hiragana				(U+3040-U+309F)
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	Katakana				(U+30A0-U+30FF)
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* Young U. Ryu <ryoung AT utdallas.edu>
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Young Ryu is the author of Txfonts, a set of mathematical symbols
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designed to accompany text typeset in Times or its variants. In the
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documentation, Young adresses the design of mathematical symbols: "The
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Adobe Times fonts are thicker than the CM fonts. Designing math fonts
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for Times based on the rule thickness of Times = , , + , / , < ,
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etc. would result in too thick math symbols, in my opinion. In the TX
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fonts, these glyphs are thinner than those of original Times
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fonts. That is, the rule thickness of these glyphs is around 85% of
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that of the Times fonts, but still thicker than that of the CM fonts."
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TX fonts are are distributed under the GNU public license (GPL). 
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<http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/txfonts/>.
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	Arrows					(U+2190-U+21FF)
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	Mathematical Symbols			(U+2200-U+22FF)
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* Angelo Haritsis <ah AT computer.org>
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Angelo Haritsis has compiled a set of Greek Type 1 fonts, once available as
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as a tarball named greekXfonts-Type1-1.1.tgz.
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The glyphs from this source have been used to compose Greek glyphs in
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FreeSans and FreeMono.
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Angelo's licence says: "You can enjoy free use of these fonts for
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educational or commercial purposes.  All derived works should include
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this paragraph.  If you want to change something please let me have
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your changes (via email) so that they can go into the next
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version. You can also send comments etc to the above address."
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	Greek					(U+0370-U+03FF)
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* Yannis Haralambous and Virach Sornlertlamvanich
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In 1999, Yannis Haralambous and Virach Sornlertlamvanich made a set of
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glyphs covering the Thai national standard Nf3, in both upright and
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slanted shape. The collection of glyphs have been made part of GNU
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intlfonts 1.2 package and is available under the GPL at
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<ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/intlfonts/>.
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	Thai					(U+0E00-U+0E7F)
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* Shaheed R. Haque <srhaque AT iee.org>
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Shaheed Haque has developed a basic set of basic Bengali glyphs
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(without ligatures), using ISO10646 encoding. They are available under
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the XFree86 license at <http://www.btinternet.com/~shaheedhaque/>.
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Copyright (C) 2001 S.R.Haque <srhaque AT iee.org>.  All Rights Reserved.
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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
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a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
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"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
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without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
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distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
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permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
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the following conditions:
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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
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included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
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EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
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MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
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IN NO EVENT SHALL S.R.HAQUE BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
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LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
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ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
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OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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Except as contained in this notice, the name of S.R.Haque shall not be
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used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other
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dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from
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S.R.Haque.
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	Bengali					(U+0980-U+09FF)
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* Sam Stepanyan <sam AT arminco.com>
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Sam Stepanyan created a set of Armenian sans serif glyphs visually
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compatible with Helvetica or Arial. Available on
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<http://www.editum.com.ar/mashtots/html/fonts/ara.tar.gz>. On
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2002-01-24, Sam writes: "Arial Armenian font is free for
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non-commercial use, so it is OK to use under GPL license."
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Armenian				(U+0530-U+058F)
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* Mohamed Ishan <>
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Mohamed Ishan started the Thaana Unicode Project and among other things
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created a couple of Thaana fonts, available under FDL or BDF license.
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	Thaana					(U+0780-U+07BF)
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* Sushant Kumar Dash <sushant AT writeme.com> (*)
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Sushant Dash has created a font in his mother tongue, Oriya. As he
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states on his web page <http://sushantdash.tripod.com/>:
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"Please feel free to foreword this mail to your Oriya friends. No
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copyright law is applied for this font. It is totally free!!! Feel
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free to modify this using any font editing tools. This is designed for
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people like me, who are away from Orissa and want to write letters
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home using Computers, but suffer due to unavailability of Oriya
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fonts.(Or the cost of the available packages are too much)."
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	Oriya					(U+0B00-U+0B7F)
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* Harsh Kumar <harshkumar AT vsnl.com>
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Harsh Kumar has started BharatBhasha <http://www.bharatbhasha.net/> -
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an effort to provide "FREE software, Tutorial, Source Codes
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etc. available for working in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Gurmukhi and
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Bangla. You can type text, write Web pages or develop Indian Languages
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Applications on Windows and on Linux. We also offer FREE help to
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users, enthusiasts and software developers for their work in Indian
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languages."
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	Devanagari				(U+0900-U+097F)
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	Bengali					(U+0980-U+09FF)
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	Gurmukhi				(U+0A00-U+0A7F)
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	Gujarati				(U+0A80-U+0AFF)
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* Prasad A. Chodavarapu <chprasad AT hotmail.com>
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Prasad A. Chodavarapu created Tikkana, a Telugu font available in Type
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1 and TrueType format on <http://chaitanya.bhaavana.net/fonts/>. 
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Tikkana exceeds the Unicode Telugu range with some composite glyphs.
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Available under the GNU General Public License.
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	Telugu					(U+0C00-U+0C7F)
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* Frans Velthuis <velthuis AT rc.rug.nl> and Anshuman Pandey
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  <apandey AT u.washington.edu>
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In 1991, Frans Velthuis from the Groningen University, The Netherlands,
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released a Devanagari font as Metafont source, available under the terms of
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GNU GPL. Later, Anshuman Pandey from the Washington University, Seattle, USA,
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took over the maintenance of font.  Zdeněk Wagner has provided a huge amount
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of expert advice regarding the implementation of the font in FreeSerif.
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Fonts can be found on CTAN,
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<ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/devanagari/>.
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	Devanagari				(U+0900-U+097F)
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* Hardip Singh Pannu <HSPannu AT aol.com>
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In 1991, Hardip Singh Pannu has created a free Gurmukhi TrueType font,
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available as regular, bold, oblique and bold oblique form. Its license
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says "Please remember that these fonts are copyrighted (by me) and are
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for non-profit use only." 
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	Gurmukhi				(U+0A00-U+0A7F)
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* Jeroen Hellingman <jehe AT kabelfoon.nl>
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Jeroen Hellingman created a set of Malayalam metafonts in 1994, and a
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set of Oriya metafonts in 1996. Malayalam fonts were created as
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uniform stroke only, while Oriya metafonts exist in both uniform and
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modulated stroke. From private communication: "It is my intention to
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release the fonts under GPL, but not all copies around have this
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notice on them." Metafonts can be found on CTAN,
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<ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/oriya/> and
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<ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/malayalam/>.
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	Oriya					(U+0B00-U+0B7F)
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	Malayalam				(U+0D00-U+0D7F)
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* Thomas Ridgeway <> (*)
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Thomas Ridgeway, then at the Humanities And Arts Computing Center,
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Washington University, Seattle, USA, (now defunct), created a Tamil
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metafont in 1990. Anshuman Pandey from the same university took over
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the maintenance of font. Fonts can be found at CTAN,
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<ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/tamil/wntamil/>.
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	Tamil					(U+0B80-U+0BFF)
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* Berhanu Beyene <1beyene AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>,
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  Prof. Dr. Manfred Kudlek <kudlek AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>, Olaf
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  Kummer <kummer AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>, and Jochen Metzinger 
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Beyene, Kudlek, Kummer and Metzinger from the Theoretical Foundations
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of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, prepared a set of Ethiopic
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metafonts, found on
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<ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/language/ethiopia/ethiop/>. They also
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maintain home page on the Ethiopic font project,
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<http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/mitarbeiter/wimis/kummer/ethiop_eng.html>,
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and can be reached at <ethiop AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>. The current
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version of fonts is 0.7 (1998), and they are released under GNU GPL. I
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converted the fonts to Type 1 format using Péter Szabó's TeXtrace-A
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program <http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/textrace/> and removed some
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redundant control points with PfaEdit.
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	Ethiopic				(U+1200-U+137F)
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* Maxim Iorsh <iorsh AT users.sourceforge.net>
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In 2002, Maxim Iorsh started the Culmus project, aiming at providing
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Hebrew-speaking Linux and Unix community with a basic collection of
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Hebrew fonts for X Windows. The fonts are visually compatible with
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URW++ Century Schoolbook L, URW++ Nimbus Sans L and URW++ Nimbus Mono
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L families, respectively, and are released under GNU GPL license. See
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also <http://culmus.sourceforge.net/>.
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	Hebrew					(U+0590-U+05FF)
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* Panayotis Katsaloulis <panayotis AT panayotis.com>
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Panayotis Katsaloulis helped fixing Greek accents in the Greek
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Extended area.
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	Greek Extended				(U+1F00-U+1FFF)
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* Vyacheslav Dikonov <sdiconov AT mail.ru>
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Vyacheslav Dikonov made a Braille unicode font that could be merged
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with the UCS fonts to fill the 2800-28FF range completely. (uniform
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scaling is possible to adapt it to any cell size). He also contributed
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a free syriac font, whose glyphs (about half of them) are borrowed
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from the "Carlo Ator" font by Tim Erickson.
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Vyacheslav also filled in a few missing
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spots in the U+2000-U+27FF area, e.g. the box drawing section, sets of
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subscript and superscript digits and capital Roman numbers.
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	Syriac					(U+0700-U+074A)
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	Box Drawing				(U+2500-U+257F)
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	Braille					(U+2800-U+28FF)
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* Tim Erickson
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Is the author of several Eurasian fonts, including "Carlo Ator".
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He has given his written permission for glyphs from this font to be
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included in FreeFont.
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	Syriac					(U+0700-U+074A)
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* M.S. Sridhar <mssridhar AT vsnl.com>
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M/S Cyberscape Multimedia Limited, Mumbai, developers of Akruti
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Software for Indian Languages (http://www.akruti.com/), have released
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a set of TTF fonts for nine Indian scripts (Devanagari, Gujarati,
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Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Oriya, and Gurumukhi)
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under the GNU General Public License (GPL). You can download the fonts
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from the Free Software Foundation of India WWW site
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(http://www.gnu.org.in/akruti-fonts/) or from the Akruti website.
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For any further information or assistance regarding these fonts,
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please contact mssridhar AT vsnl.com.
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	Devanagari				(U+0900-U+097F)
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	Bengali					(U+0980-U+09FF)
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	Gurmukhi				(U+0A00-U+0A7F)
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	Gujarati				(U+0A80-U+0AFF)
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	Oriya					(U+0B00-U+0B7F)
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	Tamil					(U+0B80-U+0BFF)
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	Telugu					(U+0C00-U+0C7F)
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	Kannada					(U+0C80-U+0CFF)	
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	Malayalam				(U+0D00-U+0D7F)
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* DMS Electronics, The Sri Lanka Tipitaka Project, and Noah Levitt
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  <nlevitt AT columbia.edu>
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Noah Levitt found out that the Sinhalese fonts available on the site
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<http://www.metta.lk/fonts/> are released under GNU GPL, or,
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precisely, "Public Domain under GNU Licence
 Produced by DMS
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Electronics for The Sri Lanka Tipitaka Project" (taken from the font
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comment), and took the effort of recoding the font to Unicode.
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These glyphs were later replaced by those from the LKLUG font
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<http://www.lug.lk/fonts/lklug>
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Finally the range was completely replaced by glyphs from the sinh TeX
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font, with much help and advice from Harshula Jayasuriya.
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	Sinhala					(U+0D80-U+0DFF)
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* Daniel Shurovich Chirkov <dansh AT chirkov.com>
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Dan Chirkov updated the FreeSerif font with the missing Cyrillic
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glyphs needed for conformance to Unicode 3.2. The effort is part of
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the Slavjanskij package for Mac OS X,
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<http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18680>.
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	Cyrillic				(U+0400-U+04FF)
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* Denis Jacquerye <moyogo AT gmail.com>
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Denis Jacquerye added new glyphs and corrected existing ones in the
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Latin Extended-B and IPA Extensions ranges.
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	Latin Extended-B                        (U+0180-U+024F)
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	IPA Extensions				(U+0250-U+02AF)
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* K.H. Hussain <hussain AT kfri.org> and R. Chitrajan
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`Rachana' in Malayalam means `to write', `to create'. Rachana Akshara Vedi,
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a team of socially committed information technology professionals and
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philologists, has applied developments in computer technology and desktop
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publishing to resurrect the Malayalam language from the disorder,
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fragmentation and degeneration it had suffered since the attempt to adapt
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the Malayalam script for using with a regular mechanical typewriter, which
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took place in 1967-69. K.H. Hussein at the Kerala Forest Research Institute
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has released "Rachana Normal" fonts with approximately 900 glyphs required
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to typeset traditional Malayalam. R. Chitrajan apparently encoded the
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glyphs in the OpenType table.
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In 2008, the Malayalam ranges in FreeSerif were updated under the advise 
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and supervision of Hiran Venugopalan of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing,
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to reflect the revised edition Rachana_04.
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	Malayalam				(U+0D00-U+0D7F)
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* Solaiman Karim <solaiman AT ekushey.org>
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	Bengali					(U+0980-U+09FF)
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Solaiman Karim has developed several OpenType Bangla fonts and
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released them under GNU GPL on <http://www.ekushey.org>.
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* Sonali Sonania <sonalisonania AT gmail.com> and Monika Shah
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  <monikapatira AT gmail.com>
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	Devanagari				(U+0900-U+097F)
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	Gujarati				(U+0A80-U+0AFF)
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Glyphs were drawn by Cyberscape Multimedia Ltd., #101,Mahalakshmi
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Mansion 21st Main 22nd "A" Cross Banashankari 2nd stage Banglore
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560070, India. Converted to OTF by IndicTrans Team, Powai, Mumbai,
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lead by Prof. Jitendra Shah. Maintained by Monika Shah and Sonali
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Sonania of janabhaaratii Team, C-DAC, Mumbai. This font is released
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under GPL by Dr. Alka Irani and Prof Jitendra Shah, janabhaaratii
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Team, C-DAC, Mumabi. janabhaaratii is localisation project at C-DAC
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Mumbai (formerly National Centre for Software Technology); funded by
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TDIL, Govt. of India. Contact:monika_shah AT lycos.com,
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sonalisonania AT yahoo.com, jitendras AT vsnl.com, alka AT ncst.ernet.in.
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website: www.janabhaaratii.org.in.
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* Pravin Satpute <pravin.d.s AT gmail.com>, Bageshri Salvi
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  <sbagrshri AT yahoo.co.in>, Rahul Bhalerao 
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  gmail.com> and Sandeep Shedmake <sandeep.shedmake AT gmail.com>
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	Devanagari				(U+0900-U+097F)
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	Gujarati				(U+0A80-U+0AFF)
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	Oriya					(U+0B00-U+0B7F)
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	Malayalam				(U+0D00-U+0D7F)
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	Tamil					(U+0B80-U+0BFF)
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In December 2005 the team at www.gnowledge.org released a set of two
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Unicode pan-Indic fonts: "Samyak" and "Samyak Sans". "Samyak" font
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belongs to serif style and is an original work of the team; "Samyak
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Sans" font belongs to sans serif style and is actually a compilation
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of already released Indic fonts (Gargi, Padma, Mukti, Utkal, Akruti
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and ThendralUni). Both fonts are based on Unicode standard. 
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The fonts are now hosted at Sarovar.org:
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http://sarovar.org/projects/samyak/
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* Kulbir Singh Thind
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	Gurmukhi				(U+0A00-U+0A7F)
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Dr. Kulbir Singh Thind designed a set of Gurmukhi Unicode fonts,
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AnmolUni and AnmolUni-Bold, which are available under the terms of GNU
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Generel Public License from the Punjabu Computing Resource Center,
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http://guca.sourceforge.net/typography/fonts/anmoluni/.
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* Gia Shervashidze <giasher AT telenet.ge>
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        Georgian				(U+10A0-U+10FF)
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Starting in mid-1990s, Gia Shervashidze designed many
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Unicode-compliant Georgian fonts: Times New Roman Georgian, Arial
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Georgian, Courier New Georgian. His work on Georgian localization can
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be reached at http://www.gia.ge/.
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* Primož Peterlin <primoz.peterlin AT biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si>
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Primož Peterlin filled in missing glyphs here and there (e.g. Latin
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Extended-B and IPA Extensions ranges in the FreeMono familiy), and
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created the following UCS blocks:
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	Latin Extended-B                        (U+0180-U+024F)
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	IPA Extensions				(U+0250-U+02AF)
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	Arrows					(U+2190-U+21FF)
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	Box Drawing				(U+2500-U+257F)
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	Block Elements				(U+2580-U+259F)
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	Geometrical Shapes			(U+25A0-U+25FF)
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* Mark Williamson
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Made the MPH 2 Damase font, from which 
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	Hanunóo                                 (U+1720-U+173F)
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	Buginese                                (U+1A00-U+1A1F)
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	Tai Le                                  (U+1950-U+197F)
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	Ugaritic                                (U+10380-U+1039F)
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	Old Persian                             (U+103A0-U+103DF)
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* Jacob Poon
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Submitted a very thorough survey of glyph problems and other suggestions.
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* Alexey Kryukov
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Made the TemporaLCGUni fonts, based on the URW++ fonts, from which at one 
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point FreeSerif Cyrillic, and some of the Greek, was drawn.  He also provided
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valuable direction about Cyrillic and Greek typesetting.
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	Cyrillic				(U+0400-U+04FF)
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* George Douros
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The creator of several fonts focusing on ancient scripts and symbols.
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Many of the glyphs are created by making outlines from scanned images
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of ancient sources.
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	Aegean:   Phoenecian
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	Analecta: Gothic                        (U+10330-U+1034F)
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	Musical:  Byzantine & Western                  
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	Unicode:  many Miscellaneous Symbols, Miscellaneous Technical, OCR,
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	          supplemental Symbols, and Mathematical Alphanumeric symbols,
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		  Mah Jong, and the outline of the Domino.
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* Daniel Johnson
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Created by hand a Cherokee range specially for FreeFont to be "in line with
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the classic Cherokee typefaces used in 19th century printing", but also to
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fit well with ranges previously in FreeFont.  Then he made Unified Canadian
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Syllabics in Sans, and a Cherokee and Kayah Li in Mono!  And never to be
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outdone by himself, then did UCAS Extended and Osmanya....  What next?
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	Armenian (serif)                        (U+0530-U+058F)
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	Cherokee                                (U+13A0-U+13FF)
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	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics   (U+1400-U+167F)
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	UCAS Extended                           (U+18B0-U+18F5)
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	Kayah Li                                (U+A900-U+A92F)
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	Tifinagh                                (U+2D30-U+2D7F)
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	Vai                                     (U+A500-U+A62B)
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	Latin Extended-D (Mayanist letters)     (U+A720-U+A7FF)
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	Osmanya                                 (U+10480-U+104a7)
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* Yannis Haralambous and Wellcome Institute
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In 1994, The Wellcome Library
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  The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
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  183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, England.
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commissioned Mr. Haralambous to produce a Sinhalese font for them.
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We have received 03/09 official notice from Robert Kiley, Head of e-Strategy
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for the Wellcome Library, that Yannis' font could be included in GNU
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FreeFont under its GNU license.
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Thanks to Dominik Wujastyk, for providing us with feedback and contacts
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to repsonsible people at the Trust.
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	Sinhala					(U+0D80-U+0DFF)
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* The Sinhala font project http://sinhala.sourceforge.net/
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The Sinhala font project has taken the glyphs from Yannis Haralambous'
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Sinhala font, to produce a Unicode TrueType font, LKLUG.  These glyphs
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were for a while included in FreeFont.
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	Sinhala					(U+0D80-U+0DFF)
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* Steve White <stevan.white AT googlemail.com>
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Filled in a lot of missing characters, got some font features working,
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left fingerprints almost everywhere, and is responsible for these blocks:
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	Runic                                   (U+16A0-U+16F0)
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	Glagolitic                              (U+2C00-U+2C5F)
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	Coptic                                  (U+2C80-U+2CFF)
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	Old Italic                              (U+10300-U+1032F)
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(The design of Runic is based roughly on one originally submitted by 
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Vyacheslav Dikonov)
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* Pavel Skrylev is responsible for
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	Cyrillic Extended-A                     (U+2DEO-U+2DFF)
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  as well as many of the additions to
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	Cyrillic Extended-B                     (U+A640-U+A65F)
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* Masoud Pourmoosa corrected several letters in Arabic for Persian:
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	Arabic					(U+0600-U+06FF)
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Notes:
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*: The glyph collection looks license-compatible, but its author has
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   not yet replied and agreed on their work being used in part of
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   this glyph collection.
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