Re: Indic scripts and wcwidth: comments?

[rajeev joseph sebastian <rajeev_jsv@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Rich Felker,

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1. Does any existing character cell application (terminal emulator)
   both display correctly-rendered Indic text and conform to WI1, i.e.
   does it update column position according to wcwidth() and not the
   OpenType-rendered width of the text string? I suspect not. RTFS'ing
   mlterm it seems like it does not. I can't find any good info on
   ncst-term.

2. Are there serious limitations of WI2 that make it impossible to
   display [legibly] certain consonant clusters? Can the ZWJ/ZWNJ
   semantics be satisfied correctly?

3. Other comments?
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I have a question on this. By "single width", "double width", do you mean a global width constant, or a width that can be specified by the font ?

Either way, Indic texts on a console would look really bad and be practically unusable if glyphs had to be put into a specified width: there would be too much spacing. Indic texts by their nature are most suited to variable-widths.

Regards,
Rajeev J Sebastian




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