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QUERY> Fonts for transliterating Indo-Tibetan terms with diacritics

by Bertram G. Liyanage

Dear friends and colleagues,

I’m looking for a good quality font that supports transliterating Indo-Tibetan terms. I have used Times New Roman after it was developed with full diacritical character set, but I have seen many attractive fonts used by Book publishing companies, such as Oxford University Press. I have tried Minion, Caslon and Garamond (including Adobe fonts) as well. Though they are excellent, the font sets I can access don’t support some diacritics. It seems Oxford University Press also uses Caslon or Minion but surprisingly they have full diacritical character set. Am I mistaken? Would anyone in this group be able to recommend the purchase of a Unicode font like Minion or Caslon with full diacritical character set?

I also would not favor jGaramond, Gentium, Palatino or fonts similar to Times Roman. My purpose is to use this font for designing a book. (I do book designing, apart from Buddhist studies.) I hope some of you, who have experience publishing books with large companies, can help me.

Thank you,

Bertram G. Liyanage
Deputy editor
Encyclopaedia of Buddhism, Sri Lanka

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