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@@ -122,7 +122,6 @@ intlfonts 1.2 package and is available under the GPL at
Thai (U+0E00-U+0E7F)
-
* Shaheed R. Haque <srhaque AT iee.org>
Shaheed Haque has developed a basic set of basic Bengali glyphs
@@ -357,6 +356,12 @@ precisely, "Public Domain under GNU Licence Produced by DMS
Electronics for The Sri Lanka Tipitaka Project" (taken from the font
comment), and took the effort of recoding the font to Unicode.
+These glyphs were later replaced by those from the LKLUG font
+<http://www.lug.lk/fonts/lklug>
+
+Finally the range was completely replaced by glyphs from the sinh TeX
+font, with much help and advice from Harshula Jayasuriya.
+
Sinhala (U+0D80-U+0DFF)
@@ -515,8 +520,56 @@ of ancient sources.
Created by hand a Cherokee range specially for FreeFont to be "in line with
the classic Cherokee typefaces used in 19th century printing", but also to
-fit well with ranges previously in FreeFont.
+fit well with ranges previously in FreeFont. Then he made Unified Canadian
+Syllabics in Sans, and a Cherokee and Kayah Li in Mono! And never to be
+outdone by himself, then did UCAS Extended and Osmanya.... What next?
+
+ Armenian (serif) (U+0530-U+058F)
Cherokee (U+13A0-U+13FF)
+ Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (U+1400-U+167F)
+ UCAS Extended (U+18B0-U+18F5)
+ Kayah Li (U+A900-U+A92F)
+ Tifinagh (U+2D30-U+2D7F)
+ Vai (U+A500-U+A62B)
+ Latin Extended-D (Mayanist letters) (U+A720-U+A7FF)
+ Osmanya (U+10480-U+104a7)
+
+* Yannis Haralambous and Wellcome Institute
+
+In 1994, The Wellcome Library
+ The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
+ 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, England.
+commissioned Mr. Haralambous to produce a Sinhalese font for them.
+
+We have received 03/09 official notice from Robert Kiley, Head of e-Strategy
+for the Wellcome Library, that Yannis' font could be included in GNU
+FreeFont under its GNU license.
+
+Thanks to Dominik Wujastyk, for providing us with feedback and contacts
+to repsonsible people at the Trust.
+
+ Sinhala (U+0D80-U+0DFF)
+
+* The Sinhala font project http://sinhala.sourceforge.net/
+
+The Sinhala font project has taken the glyphs from Yannis Haralambous'
+Sinhala font, to produce a Unicode TrueType font, LKLUG. These glyphs
+were for a while included in FreeFont.
+
+ Sinhala (U+0D80-U+0DFF)
+
+* Steve White <stevan_white AT googlemail.com>
+
+Filled in a lot of missing characters, got some font features working,
+left fingerprints almost everywhere, and is responsible for these blocks:
+
+ Glagolitic (U+2C00-U+2C5F)
+ Coptic (U+2C80-U+2CFF)
+
+* Pavel Skrylev is responsible for
+ Cyrillic Extended-A (U+2DEO-U+2DFF)
+ as well as many of the additions to
+ Cyrillic Extended-B (U+A640-U+A65F)
Notes:
@@ -525,4 +578,4 @@ Notes:
this glyph collection.
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-$Id: CREDITS,v 1.23 2009/01/04 15:57:54 Stevan_White Exp $
+$Id: CREDITS,v 1.28 2010/09/11 13:24:11 Stevan_White Exp $