Nudi (software)
Encyclopedia
Nudi is a computer program and font
-encoding standard used for managing and displaying the Kannada script
.
The Karnataka
government owns and makes the Nudi software available for free. It was developed by the Kannada Ganaka Parishat, a non-profit organisation
. Most of the fonts included with Nudi can be used for dynamic font embedding
purposes; however, since the fonts and software are available freely, they can be used in other situations as well, for example database management. It is a font-encoding based standard (i.e., it uses ASCII
values to store glyphs). However, Nudi editor provides saving in Unicode and Nudi engine provides inputting data in Unicode provided the system provides support to Unicode and system has an opentype font.
Nudi supports most of the windows based database systems like Access, Oracle, SQL, DB2 etc., It also supports MySQL.
Font
In typography, a font is traditionally defined as a quantity of sorts composing a complete character set of a single size and style of a particular typeface...
-encoding standard used for managing and displaying the Kannada script
Kannada script
The Kannada script is an alphasyllabary of the Brahmic family, used primarily to write the Kannada language, one of the Dravidian languages of southern India and also Sanskrit in the past. The Telugu script is derived from Old Kannada, and resembles Kannada script...
.
The Karnataka
Karnataka
Karnataka , the land of the Kannadigas, is a state in South West India. It was created on 1 November 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act and this day is annually celebrated as Karnataka Rajyotsava...
government owns and makes the Nudi software available for free. It was developed by the Kannada Ganaka Parishat, a non-profit organisation
Non-profit organization
Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...
. Most of the fonts included with Nudi can be used for dynamic font embedding
Font embedding
Font embedding is inclusion of font files inside an electronic document. This has been possible with Portable Document Format , Microsoft Word for Windows and some other applications for many years...
purposes; however, since the fonts and software are available freely, they can be used in other situations as well, for example database management. It is a font-encoding based standard (i.e., it uses ASCII
ASCII
The American Standard Code for Information Interchange is a character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text...
values to store glyphs). However, Nudi editor provides saving in Unicode and Nudi engine provides inputting data in Unicode provided the system provides support to Unicode and system has an opentype font.
Nudi supports most of the windows based database systems like Access, Oracle, SQL, DB2 etc., It also supports MySQL.