[Freefont-bugs] A new release of Free UCS outline fonts

[Primoz PETERLIN]

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Dear all,

After a considerable amount of time, a new release of free UCS outline 
fonts is available on Savannah: 

http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freefont/

(freefont-sfd-20051206.tar.gz contains Spline Font Database files, 
editable with FontForge <http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/>, while 
freefont-ttf-20051206.tar.gz contains TrueType fonts with OpenType 
features).

All the fonts now conform to MES-1 (Minimum European Subset) of
Unicode/ISO 10646. In addition, thanks to Solaiman Karim, Omi Azad, K.H.  
Hussain and R. Chitrajan, OpenType support for Bengali (in FreeSerif,
FreeSerifItalic, FreeSans and FreeSansOblique) and traditional Malayalam
(FreeSerif) might be mentioned as major new features. Most reported bugs
were also corrected.

We plan to continue development towards MES-2, which will bring complete
support for Latin, Cyrillic and Greek alphabets. With the current pace, we
will reach this goal in early 2006. Along the way, we are also improving
on other areas, such as non-European Latin use, support for Indic scripts
etc.

With kind regards,
Primoz Peterlin

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Lipičeva 2, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija.  address@hidden
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