Hello everyone,
In all my tests so far with the various Hindi Unicode fonts that are out
there, DVBOTSurekh, made by CDAC is hands-down the best one. It handles the
most conjuncts, has the best display of each character and is aesthetically
professional and pleasing. Also, the font prints well and displays well at
small sizes (Good hinting and excellent display at small sizes is one huge
advantage that MANGAL has too). I tried typing a whole host of different
conjuncts and whether they were Hindi conjuncts or Sanskrit ones, this font
handled them all perfectly. Also, the five nukta characters representing
Urdu sounds (qa, kha, gha, za, fa) all display with the nukta in the correct
location, which is an issue many other fonts do not tackle properly. The
reph (r on top) places perfectly and alternate character sequences work
beautifully. If I attach a maatra for "u" or oo to even an extended
conjunct, the maatra displays correctly, as opposed to some other fonts
where the characters start cutting into each other.
I highly recommend this font to everyone and encourage you to also push CDAC
(www.cdacindia.com) to release more of their extensive font library in
Unicode format... they are well placed to do it so let's get the e-mails
started to them!
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