The difference in Unicode font is the existence of separate glyphs for the Indic script characters along with the Latin glyphs that are actually replaced by the Indic characters. This created a massive amount of content that is not searchable or reproducible because it is not Unicode compliant. Modified ASCII fonts that were used as typesets for newspapers, books, magazines and other printed documents still exist in these industries. Though contribution to Unicode compliant portals like Wikipedia increased, the publication and printing industries in India were still stuck with the pre-existing ASCII and ISCII standards (Indian font encoding standard based on ASCII). Since then, many Unicode compliant fonts have been designed and the open source community has put forth effort to produce good quality fonts.
The Odia language recently got such a converter, making it possible to convert two of the most popular fonts among media professionals (AkrutiOriSarala99 and AkrutiOriSarala) into Unicode.Īll of the non- Latin scripts came under one umbrella after the rollout of Unicode. This could enrich Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects by converting previously typed content and making it more widely available on the internet. This created the need for a simple converter that could convert text once typed in various non-Unicode fonts to Unicode. Since its release, it has been challenging to get more content on Unicode, the reason being many who are used to other non-Unicode standards are not willing to make the move to Unicode.
Odia is a language spoken by roughly 33 million people in Eastern India, and is one of the many official languages of India. It’s been over a decade since Unicode standard was made available for Odia script. Screenshot mock-up of Akruti Sarala – Unicode Odia converter
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