[Wikimediaindia-l] Please add Sanskrit 2003 web font to Sanskrit Wikipedia

Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.ghoda at gmail.com
Wed Dec 14 17:23:28 UTC 2011


Err, Subhashish of Odia has considerable experience in designing
fonts. Perhaps, he could help out.

On 12/14/11, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 20:16, ePandit | ई-पण्डित
> <sharma.shrish at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I just saw that web fonts facility have been added to Indic wikis. On
>> Hindi and Sanskrit wikipedia, there are Lohit Devanagari and Samyak
>> Devanagari fonts.
>>
>> I request to add Sanskrit
>> 2003<http://hi.wikipedia.org/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%A4_%E0%A5%A8%E0%A5%A6%E0%A5%A6%E0%A5%A9>web
>> font to Sanskrit wikipedia (and if possible to other Devanagari script
>> based wikis) because it is the best Unicode font to display Sanskrit text.
>> It is also free, so there is no problem to use it for this purpose.
>
>
> As far as I could check, it is not a freely licensed font. They are only
> free for personal use. I could not find a clear license statement for it
> though, If you could find it, please point it to us. If its freely
> licensed, please file a bug request here[1]
>
> [1]
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&component=WebFonts
>
> --
> Regards
> Srikanth.L
>


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Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
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