[Oriya-group] Oriya Truetype fonts

[Soumendra]

Hi all.

I have been trying to locate a font that would correctly render
unicode oriya. But I have failed to find one so far. Almost all fonts
get stuck as far as the matras "au," "o," "ou" etc are concerned.

Isn't there a solution. I looked through the documentation of unicode
(it might be outdated) and it seems that the complex font rendering
support is not available for languages like Oriya, Bengali etc. That
seems to be true even if it is not plausible! I don't see a difference
between the way Devanagari script (the matras "au," "o," "ou" etc) is
rendered and the way Oriya script is rendered.

Is anything being done about it? I would like to do something about it
if possible (I am not sure about my skills, but I have a lot of time
to invest).

It seems to me that unless we have a decent unicode font in place,
it's not much use producing oriya text online (because, for example, I
don't think we can google text written using bitmap fonts).

Please let me know about the current situation, and what I can do to improve it.

With respect,
Soumendra

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