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How to download install activate Devanagari Fonts MANGAL Mangal font is a must in my opinion. Google search is possible for texts written in Unicode Fonts.Īnalytics is possible on the texts written in Unicode Fonts Given the above advantages, I understand that to move the Digitization of Vedas to the next level, its essential that the texts are typed in Unicode fonts and furthered for appropriate analysis. Obviously, the form of that character cannot be displayed in absence of any corresponding font and till any corresponding font(s) are installed, these characters are displayed as rectangular blocks. Since each character has an assigned code, the computer recognises them distinctly, even if the font corresponding to that character is not installed.
If a document is written in any Unicode Font which is not installed on the readers computer, even then the document can be read by using other installed Unicode Fonts containing those characters.įor example, if a document is written in Siddhanta font, which is not installed on the readers computer, even then the reader can read that document with the available Mangal font unless there are ancient Vedic characters which are not available in Mangal font. They have been adopted by all the operating software making companies. The advantages of Unicode Fonts are following: 1) They have been constructed after deep research by authentic institutions and are built to be progressive. Some other devanagari fonts like Krutidev, etc are not unicode compliant. So, Siddhanta becomes the next best choice which (though freely available) is not preinstalled in computers and has to be installed. Hence Mangal is my first choice but Mangal does not have ancient Vedic characters (example accent numbers of Saamved). Mangal is freely available with Windows and other operating softwares (of computers and mobiles). The fonts which keep the characters identifiable to their assigned alpha numeric Unicodes are called Unicode Fonts.
The fonts are like set of designs for given sets of characters (keeping their form intact).