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Is it in a free font? http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/kannada.html http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/kannada.html suggests maybe not.

• mkl 15y ago
  Yes, it's in Dejavu Sans, which is what Shapecatcher uses. I'm guessing the Kannada block just isn't in the database yet.
  • bhrgunatha 15y ago
    It isn't included in Dejavu Sans. I (and others) had to install a different font to be able to see it.
    • mkl 15y ago
      You are right. On my system it's being automatically substituted from another font, even in character map applications.
      • bhrgunatha 15y ago
        I really wish font handling and rendering were a bit simpler to understand and troubleshoot in Linux. Recently I had an annoying problem where some web pages weren't rendering the fonts correctly. It turned out the reason was a font config file for a Chinese bitmap font was causing firefox's font rendering to alter - both chromium and another browser were working as expected (according to the css rules). Tracking down the problem took several weeks and several dead ends and I only stumbled on the answer by accident anyway.