Nitin Verma’s Blog

1. Search for fonts

$ apt-cache search $favorite_language font
This would search fonts for you, and would probability end up getting the stuff from ubuntu universe.

ttf-ancient-fonts
ttf-indic-fonts
ttf-kannada-fonts

$ apt-cache search indic font
groff - GNU troff text-formatting system
libqscintilla2-3 - The Qt4 port of the Scintilla source code editing widget
texlive-lang-indic - TeX Live: Indic
texlive-latex-extra - TeX Live: LaTeX supplementary packages
ttf-indic-fonts - Metapackage for free Indian language fonts
ttf-indic-fonts-core - Core collection of free Indian language fonts
ttf-unifont - TrueType version of the GNU Unifont
unifont - font with a glyph for each visible Unicode 5.1 Plane 0 character
xfonts-unifont - PCF (bitmap) version of the GNU Unifont
itrans-fonts - fonts used in the ITRANS Indic text processing system
libhtml-tagcloud-perl - Generate HTML indexes of popular tags
liblasi-dev - development files and documentation for the LASi library
liblasi0 - creation of PostScript documents containing Unicode symbols
qemacs - Small emacs clone editor with HTML and DocBook editing support
qemacs-nox - Small emacs clone editor (without X support)

$ apt-cache search ancient font
texlive-lang-greek - TeX Live: Greek typesetting
ttf-sil-gentium - Gentium extended Unicode Latin font ("a typeface for the nations")
ttf-ancient-fonts - Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts
ttf-gfs-baskerville - Ancient Greek font revival
ttf-gfs-complutum - ancient Greek font revival from the University of Alcalá, Spain
ttf-gfs-gazis - ancient Greek font (Byzantine cursive hand style)
ttf-gfs-solomos - ancient Greek oblique font
ttf-gfs-theokritos - decorative Greek font
ttf-linex - Fonts suitable for education and institutional use

2. Install the fonts

$ sudo apt-get install ttf-indic-fonts
$ sudo apt-get install ttf-ancient-fonts
$ sudo apt-get install ttf-kannada-fonts

Installing above three would enable your browser interpret my previous blogs and even let you enjoy running examples on your shell.

• UTF-7 heptade sequence – Encode Devanagari (ॐ) or Bopomofo (ㄋㄧㄊㄧㄋ)
• UTF-8 using plain hands
• I am no expert but what did you do Joel? eeeeh!!! (No Excuses!) its 2009 😉

For RHEL

Could not find the ancient fonts but everything else is available.

$ sudo yum install fonts-kannada.noarch
$ sudo yum install fonts-tamil.noarch
$ sudo yum install fonts-hindi.noarch