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. All of the non-Latin scripts came under one umbrella after the rollout of Unicode.
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