Wednesday, January 01, 2020

It's high time the standard of Unicode is made compulsory for all journal publications in Indian languages

I was looking at a list of UGC approved journals

Vakyartha Bharathi

http://www.sringericampus.ac.in/files/Vakyartha%20Bharathi%202014-15.pdf

And I find a PDF file with some kind of proprietary font

And everything is sheer gibberish as you can see in the screen capture below
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This kind of a problem I have faced whenever I try to copy and paste material from PDFs published in Indian regional languages.
In number of central and state government websites which carry these PDFs have the same problem so much so that it is impossible for anyone to search these documents using Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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