Pali Fonts for PC and Unicode

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To type Pali words using diacritics on PCs, the best approach is to use a unicode font. Two fonts are especially good and can be downloaded for the following sites:

VU-Times:

http://zencomp.com/greatwisdom/fonts/


Gandhari Unicode:
Includes Toshiya Unebe's EasyUnicode keyboard for Mac OS X.2+ (now supports MSWord 2004)

http://www.ebmp.org/p_dwnlds.php


Another useful site is Professor John Smith's Web page:

http://bombay.indology.info/software/fonts/induni/index.html


As we use Macintosh computers at the Pali Text Society, we do not have a set of instructions for setting up a PC to handle unicode fonts, but we will be happy to distribute such information if someone sends it to us. Professor Smith's Web page above should be helpful. Other fonts are available on another of Professor Smith's Web pages:

http://bombay.indology.info/software/fonts/index.html



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