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This is the Bitstream Charter typeface (Postscript Type 1 format) which
is freely distributable.  This copy has been re-encoded to add
additional accented characters in code points between 128 and 255
according to the Computer Sanskrit (CS) character scheme.  This is
described in a document included in iass.zip, available from
ftp.bcc.ac.uk:/pub/users/ucgadkw/indology.  A copy of the main document
from this zip file is enclosed, in PostScript format, as file
charset.ps.

NB the encoding of the enclosed Bitstream Charter is CS, not CSX.  The
latter encoding, which is a super-set of CS, may be done if time allows.

This reencoding was done by Dr. Peter Friedlander, using Type
Designer.  Some refinements might be made in the area of hinting the
newly-created characters (the original chars in the font are still
hinted), but the font is certainly useful and good-looking as it is,
and perfectly okay for high-resolution output.

The fonts (normal roman, italic, bold, bold italic) are named according
to Karl Berry's font naming scheme, where
b = bitstream
ch =charter
r, b, i  = roman, bold, italic
8  = escape character meaning "here comes another coding scheme letter"
i  = Indic (CS).

For documentation on this naming scheme, see the files at the internet site
ftp.cs.umb.edu:/pub/tex/fontname.

Dominik Wujastyk
d.wujastyk@ucl.ac.uk
16 June 1994.