[XeTeX] Kannada with XeTeX on Debian GNU/Linux

[Alok G. Singh]

I have defined a command to typeset Kannada text as follows:

\newcommand{\kn}[1]{%Kannada text
{\fontspec[Script=Kannada]{Kedage}%
#1
}}

The problem is that if the text has any Latin characters in it, they are
not rendered. This is true for all the fonts in the ttf-kannada-fonts
Debian package. Is there another way of typesetting mixed language text ?

-- 
Alok