Suruma Malayalam Fonts

        The Main aim of the project is to develop opentype Malayalam fonts which can be used for reading and writing unicode encoded Malayalam texts satisfactorily in GNU/Linux. For this the following scheme is adopted.

•  Traditional Malayalam script is used.
•  All consonants are of akhand form (no post-base or pre-base).
•  Chillu from will be formed by suffixing ZWJ(unicode zero width joiner control  character, U+200D).
•  Patches for pango(for gnome/gtk) and qt(for kde) are made.

Screenshots:

    1. Firefox in Ubuntu-5.10(Breezy).

    2. Konqueror in Ubuntu-6.06 LTS (Dapper).

Download:

    Fonts

    1. suruma-0.1 (To be deprecated)

• Contains fonts,screenshots and a debian package for  yudit localized for  Malayalam.
• Patch  necessary.

    2. Meera (and Rachana) opentype fonts - g01,g02 & g03 versions (To be deprecated)

• Contains Meera opentype font for traditional Malayalam script.
• Patch  necessary.
  

    3. Renewed Fonts  NEW

• Contains Rachana & Meera Ver: 04 fonts, Suruma Ver: 2 font and RaghuMalayalam Ver: 2 font (A reformed script font by Late Shri R.K.Joshi)
• Patch NOT necessary (except for 'Kaarkkotakan fix')

   
    Patches

    1. patches-0601 (To be deprecated)

        Contains patches for pango (version 1.10.2) suitable for Ubuntu Ubuntu-5.10(breezy).

    2. patches-0607 (To be deprecated)

        Contains patches for pango (version 1.12.2) suitable for Ubuntu-6.06 LTS (Dapper).

    3. patches-0608 (To be deprecated)

        Contains patches for qt3 (version 3.3.6) suitable for Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper).

    4. patch4pango-1.16.4 (To be deprecated)

        Contains patches for pango-1.16.4 (x386-32 and AMD-64)

Other fonts viz. Rachana,Freeserif  that made work with these patches are available  here 

and the debianized packages of the same along with suruma and Meera are here

     5. patch4pango-1.16.4-Version-3 (For 'Kaarkkotakan fix' only) NEW

         Contains patches for pango-1.16.4 (x386-32 and AMD-64) for 'Kaarkkotakan fix'.

Contact:

    suresh p. | s...@ippimail.com

Blog:

    surumablog.blogspot.com