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Introduction

Kharoshthi is an ancient Indian writing system in use from around the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE. It is a right-to-left script that was used to write Gandhari and Sanskrit. Kharoshthi is also spelled as Kharosthi and Kharoṣṭhī. And it is also called Gāndhārī script.

The script requires complex processing. Still looking for a Unicode font and word processor that can properly render Kharoshthi.

Font Samples

font sample * font information
Sample of ALPHABETUM Unicode at 24pt ALPHABETUM Unicode    [ show all samples ]  (ALPHABETUM v.9.00.ttf)
Note: Excellent font for linguistics and ancient languages.
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Warning: Kharoshthi script cannot be properly rendered by this font. It does however contain glyphs for the Kharoshthi Unicode codepoints.
Source: Shareware ($15) from Juan José Marcos.
Stats: Version 9.0 Feb 2007 has 5,515 glyphs and 220 kerning pairs
Support: Coptic, Cypriot Syllabary, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Gothic, Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Glagolitic, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Linear B (ideograms and syllabary), Ogham, Old Italic, Old Persian cuneiform, Phoenician, Runic, Ugaritic, Private Use Area (Iberic & Celtiberic, additional Old Italic glyphs, Old & Medieval Latin)
Sample of MPH 2B Damase at 24pt MPH 2B Damase    [ show all samples ]  (damase_v.2.ttf from damase_v.2.zip)
Warning: Kharoshthi script cannot be properly rendered by this font. It does however contain glyphs for the Kharoshthi Unicode codepoints.
Source: Free download locally.
Stats: Version 001.000 / 002.000 has 2,896 glyphs and 192 kerning pairs
Support: Armenian, Cherokee, Coptic (Bohairic subset), Cypriot Syllabary, Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Deseret, Georgian (Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri but no Mkhedruli), Glagolitic, Gothic, Greek (including Coptic characters), Hebrew, Latin, Limbu, Linear B (partial coverage of ideograms and syllabary), Old Italic, Old Persian cuneiform, Osmanya, Phoenician, Shavian, Syloti Nagri (no conjuncts), Tai Le (no combining tone marks), Thaana, Tifinagh, Ugaritic, Vietnamese
 

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