Re: Georgian font

Marco Cimarosti wrote:

>
> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> > Does anyone know of an Asomtavruli font I can download? (Preferably
> > PostScript.)
>
> Have you tried here?
>
> http://www.travelphrases.info/gallery/Fonts_Georgian.html
>
> I see at least six fonts which seem to contain real Asomtavruly ("real" as
> opposed to the uppercase-like Mkhedruli which many fonts use):
>
> - BPG Nino Khutsuri U
> - BPG Paata Khutsuri U
> - BPG Xucuri U
> - Code2000
> - Arial Unicode MS
> - TITUS Cyberbit Basic
>
> The first three are designed specifically for Georgian; judging by the
> samples, the Asomtavruli glyph might be typographically acceptable.
>
> The other three are pan-Unicode mega-fonts: they do contain lots of
> characters in many scripts, including Asomtavruli, but the typographic
> quality varies greatly depending on script.
>
> They are all TrueType/OpenType. But you should have no problems on all the
> main platforms used today: Windows, Mac, or Linux.

The link shows up purple, so that must be among the ones I tried (from
Omniglot), and they don't work on the main platform used _yesterday_,
Mac OS 8.6. Either they're "unicode encoded" fonts with many more than
255 characters, or this is the website with TT files that don't work
because they were "not accompanied by their text," whatever that means.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...