Ever since I moved away from the other Operating System (a.k.a. Microsoft Windows), there have been many hours spent searching for Kannada fonts – on both Linux and Macintosh. I had satisfactory amount of success on Linux in this regard with hatch-patch approaches. The release of KannadaLaTeX (which has the most sensible transliteration rules by far – in my opinion), put almost all my worries were put to rest – at least with regard to producing elegant looking (non-web) documents. However, native typesetting for web platforms as well as reading such documents in Firefox was far from satisfactory.

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