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Gurmukhi

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Introduction

The Gurmukhi script is a Brahmi-derived writing system used for writing Punjabi in India, especially by Sikhs. (Punjabi is the state language of Punjab, India.) A version of Persian script similar to Urdu is used to write Punjabi in Pakistan.

Font Samples

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	AnmolUni fonts    [ show all samples ]  (AnmolUni.ttf, AnmolUni-Heavy.ttf, and AnmolUni-Bold.ttf from anmoluni.1.40.zip) Fonts shown: AnmolUni AnmolUniHeavy AnmolUni bold Source: Free download from the Punjabi Computing Resource Centre on SourceForge. Support: Gurmukhi OpenType Layout Tables: Gurmukhi (default, Punjabi)
	Arial Unicode MS    [ show all samples ]  (arialuni.ttf) Source: Comes with Microsoft's Office 2000, FrontPage 2000, Office XP and Publisher 2002. Stats: Version 1.00 has 50,377 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Balochi, Persian, Shahmukhi, Urdu), Armenian, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs), Kannada, Korean (Hangul only), Latin, Tamil, Thai, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic (default, Farsi, Urdu), Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han Ideographic (default, Japanese, Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional), Kana (default, Japanese), Kannada, Korean, Tamil
	Code2000    [ show all samples ]  (code2000.ttf) Source: Download this shareware font ($5) from James Kass's webpage. Stats: Version 1.16 has 61,864 glyphs and 239 kerning pairs Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Baluchi, Kirghiz, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Armenian, Bengali, Braille, Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Chinese (Bopomofo only, including Extended), Cirth, Coptic, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Ethiopic (including supplement and extended blocks), Ewellic, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs including Extension A), Klingon, Korean (Hangul only), Lao, Latin, Limbu, Mongolian, N'Ko, Ogham, Phaistos, Runic, Syriac, Tamil, Telugu, Tengwar, Thaana, Thai, Tifinagh, Vietnamese, Yi OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Buhid, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han Ideographic, Hangul, Hangul Jamo, Hebrew, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Malayalam, Mongolian, Myanmar, N'Ko, Tamil, Telugu, Thai
	FreeSans    [ show all samples ]  (FreeSans.ttf, FreeSansBold.ttf, FreeSansOblique.ttf, and FreeSansBoldOblique.ttf from freefont-ttf-20060126.tar.gz) Note: Bold and oblique styles support fewer characters than the "regular" font. Source: Free download from Savannah. Stats: Version 1.76 has 2,734 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Armenian, Bengali, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Greek (including polytonic), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana only), Latin, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: default, Armenian, Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Latin
	Lohit Punjabi    [ show all samples ]  (lohit.punjabi.1.0.ttf) Source: Free download from the Punjabi Computing Resource Centre on SourceForge. Stats: Version 1.1 has 150 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Gurmukhi OpenType Layout Tables: Gurmukhi
	Raavi    [ show all samples ]  (Raavi.ttf) Source: Comes with Microsoft's Windows XP. Stats: Version 1.06 has 265 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Gurmukhi OpenType Layout Tables: Gurmukhi
	RaghuPunjabi    [ show all samples ]  (RORaghuPunjabi_ship.ttf) Warning: There are issues using this font in Microsoft Word and WordPad. It seems to work OK in other editors including BabelPad, Notepad, and WorldPad. Source: Free download from IndiX: Indian Language support for the Linux Operating System. Stats: Version 1.00 has 317 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Gurmukhi OpenType Layout Tables: Gurmukhi
	Saab    [ show all samples ]  (saab.otf and saab_bold.otf) Source: Free download from the Punjabi Computing Resource Centre on SourceForge. Stats: Version 1.000 2004 has 200 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Gurmukhi OpenType Layout Tables: Gurmukhi
	SamyakSans    [ show all samples ]  (SamyakSans.ttf) Source: Free download from gnowledge.org. Stats: Version 1.0 has 2,045 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Bengali, Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Latin, Malayalam, Oriya OpenType Layout Tables: default, Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil
	Saraswati5    [ show all samples ]  (SaraswatiNormal.ttf and SaraswatiBold.ttf) Note: This font does not have the OpenType tables necessary for Gurmukhi. Source: Free download from Sun Microsystems (after registration). Stats: Version 1/17/03 has 1,803 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Latin

 

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Related Links

• The Unicode implementation of Gurmukhi is described in chapter 9 (South Asian Scripts - I) of The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0.
• The Unicode character code charts are available at the organization's website.
• SALRC (South Asia Language Resource Center) has recommendations on Unicode fonts, input schemes, and keyboard layouts.
• Names, images, properties and additional background/non-technical information about the Gurmukhi Unicode block and its characters can be found on decodeunicode's Gurmukhi block page (in English and German/Deutsch).
• The Gurmukhi Unicode Conversion Application (GUCA) is a free tool to convert ASCII encoded, font-based Gurmukhi text to Unicode.
• Writing system information at Wikipedia and Omniglot.
• Microsoft provides OpenType information for Gurmukhi font developers.

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