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Job summary
Our Red Hat Internationalization Engineering team
in Pune, India, is seeking an intern to work on improving the Indian open
source fonts. In this internship, you'll work closely with senior software
engineers on the team to develop and improve these fonts, learn about OpenType
technology, and gain experience on open source development. This project will
last for six months. As an Intern, you'll work on Red Hat's
Internationalization Engineering team to improve the OpenType support in the
open source Lohit Indian fonts. This position is a great opportunity to learn
about Indian language computing, Fedora package maintenance, Git, and Python.
Primary job responsibilities
- Learn and understand Indian language open
source computing
- Gain an in-depth understanding of OpenType
font technology including GSUB and GPOS rules.
- Work on improving Lohit fonts, making it a
standard reference Indian OpenType font
- Work on re-writing the OpenType tables for
Lohit Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Oriya, Telugu, and Kannada
- Contribute to Fedora internationalization
- Discuss results, progress, and next steps for
the project
Required skills
- Currently studying for or have a bachelor's
degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related subject
- Experience in C and other programming
languages
- Interest in improving Linux open source
support for Indian scripts
- Desire to work on fonts and i18n technology
and development
- Understanding of OS internationalization
- C or Python programming knowledge
- Familiarity with Linux and open source
development
- Experience with Git
Red Hat is proud to be an equal opportunity
workplace and an affirmative action employer. We review applications for
employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, national origin,
disability, age, military status or veteran status, genetic information, or any
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