What is the difference between "Monolingual Font", "Bilingual Font" and "Web Font"?

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What is the difference between "Monolingual Font", "Bilingual Font" and "Web Font"?

Postby ModeratorRA » Mon Mar 21, 2016 9:49 am

We can activate Shree-Lipi icon by pressing Scroll lock key (Activation key) and then Indian language can be used in the Windows applications. Shree-Lipi supports various types of font layouts. It is very important to understand difference between these fonts and user must be careful to use correct font for the selected font layout. Brief description of all the font layouts is given below-

Monolingual Font (Shree font):
'Monolingual Fonts' contain characters for a single Indian language script. These fonts are 8 bit fonts and have naming system as
"SHREE-DEV-0708", "SHREE-DEV7-0708" (For Devanagari script and Shree-Lipi 4/5/6 and 7 Font Layout respectively). These fonts are recommended for Desktop Publishing Applications because all the possible characters, conjuncts are available in Monolingual fonts. While using Monolingual Fonts, if you need to mix English text in the document, you have to change the font.
Monolingual Fonts can be used for Printing of books, Advertisements etc..

Bilingual Font (Suchi font):
'Bilingual Fonts' contain characters for an Indian language script and English both. These fonts are 8 bit fonts and have naming system as "SUCHI-DEV-0708" (For Devanagari script). These fonts are normally used for Documentation purpose if some English text has to be frequently mixed with Indian language text. To start typing in English, you have to just switch OFF the scroll lock Key and start typing. It is not necessary to change the font.
Bilingual Fonts are used for Application developments (database applications) and documentation.

Web Font:
Web fonts are like monolingual fonts containing characters for a single Indian language script. These fonts are 8 bit fonts and have naming system as "Shree-Dev-0708W", "Shree-Dev7-0708W" (for Devanagari Script and Shree-Lipi 4/5/6 and 7 Font Layout respectively). These are used to generate content in Indian language on the WEB and are specially tuned for this purpose. To type data using these fonts, you have to use keyboard handler of monolingual fonts.
Web fonts can be used for office Automation, Publishing documents, application development for internet based web application, static web pages etc.

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