The font which is based on Unicode will have designs for each individual character. How is Unicode different from Preeti?Īs Unicode is a superset of characters from all languages, the characters are designed individually. It can be done manually but is limited to a text editor or text reader - such as Word and Acrobat - that supports font formatting unless it is embedded by default in applications. Messenger and many other applications don't support Preeti font by default. The text typed with Preeti font will appear as random characters when copied and pasted to any other text editor or text-box (chat-box of Messenger, Facebook post, etc.) that doesn't support 3rd party font or lacks support for font formatting at all.įigure 3: The phrase "सन्चै हो ?" written in Microsoft Word (Left) with font sent to Preeti and same text copied to Messenger's Chatbox (Right) It renders the English character as a Nepali character.įigure 2: Letter 'A' when typed in Preeti Font
Preeti Font is not actually a Nepali Font but pretends to be one. It's also believed that Preeti is the first computer font made for the Nepali Language. It was created by Ajay Mishra and was named after her daughter Preeti Mishra. Preeti is one of the most popular fonts of the Nepali language. Since a font is a set of characters designed in a specific but custom way, the underlying character will be the same but in the text editor (Microsoft Word, Google Docs, etc.) that character will be represented the way it was designed and curated in the font. How do fonts work?Ī font serves the purpose of representing the regular characters with the one designed and crafted by its creator using font editing tools such as Fontographer (now replaced by Fontlab).įigure 1: Letter 'A' when typed in Monotype Corsiva (left) and Times New Roman (right) Fonts. The first version of Unicode was released in 1991 AD.
It's large, consumes more storage space, but contains characters from all languages, including Nepali. In an attempt to build a single encoding system, Unicode was born. The traditional rule-sets were compact, took less storage space, but were insufficient to hold characters of languages like Chinese and Japanese. Each encoding schemes were created for different languages and to meet the different kinds of need. Traditionally, the encoding schemes contained only 256 characters, and the world was overwhelmed by an enormous number of different encoding schemes. The characters are converted to binary numbers through a specific set of rules, known as encoding schemes. In computer systems, characters are converted to and stored as a set of binary bits: 0s and 1s. For the Nepali language, the available font choices are Non-Unicode fonts (Preeti, Kantipur, etc.) and the Unicode Fonts (Nirmala UI, Mangal, etc.). Picking the right font is confusing, especially for languages other than English. There are various kinds of fonts, and each font has a unique characteristic and purpose. Font helps to maintain the universality of how typefaces are represented on various digital platforms. Difficulty to maintain universal search and multiplatform support.Ī font is a set of characters designed with the same size, pitch, and spacing.It’s quite a tedious job to practice and remember the keyboard layout for Non-Unicode fonts, and it becomes infuriating when different fonts have different character mapping.Preeti and other Nepali fonts only work if the particular font is available to the computer system.Why not use Preeti or any other Non-Unicode Nepali font? Easier to learn and be accustomed to, as there is only one standard to deal with.
Can be converted to and from any other encoding standard, as Unicode is the superset of all other common characters.Maintain support for all platforms from a single text encoder.
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