Re: Linux console fonts

[Mark Leisher <mleisher@crl.nmsu.edu>]

>>>>> "Andries" == Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl> writes:
    Andries> Tibetan is one of the many languages that do not have all symbols
    Andries> available precomposed in Unicode.

    Andries> I wonder whether people have already constructed solutions for
    Andries> this type of situation.

    Andries> Is there a standard solution in the X world?

    Tom> Is Owen here?

    Tom> I don't think this problem has been solved.  The GScript project aims
    Tom> to solve it, but nobody has written a back end which works like this
    Tom> yet.  I think that is still on the to-do list.

    Tom> For those who don't know, GScript is a Unicode rendering library.  It
    Tom> will implement the full BiDi algorithm plus, I believe,
    Tom> locale-specific stuff.  My (limited) understanding is that it is
    Tom> fairly toolkit-independent, but it is being written in the context of
    Tom> Gtk+ and Gnome.  Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com> is the primary
    Tom> author.

[Testing.  My messages have been bouncing off and on for a couple weeks now.]

Rendering Indic (includes Tibetan, Myanmar, and Khmer) is non-trivial and the
BiDi algorithm has little to do with it.  There are no standards to work with.
Fonts that already exist currently dictate how rendering is done for these
scripts, and that is likely to be the case for a long time to come.
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