On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > Such combinations also happen with European languages for words like > Mo:bius which is also represented as M�bius. However, in Indic > languages such support is far more crticial.
Apart for support from the grammar, we need the font support in console. As of now, very few (may be 1 or 2) TSCII and ISCII PSF fonts are available and the readability is very poor. *AFAIK*, no of chars and combinations are very less in Western languages. In Japan, China and Arabic, the no of chars are more, but the dimension of the each chars are more or less same. In our case, no of chars and combinations are more, and dimension of the chars are also differ. For example, result of combination may add 1/2/3 new symbol(s) on the top, bottom, left, right or all side :) Handling all with std console is nearly impossible. In 2000, as part of IndLinuX project, we tried the console support for our languages with ISCII and Multi-Glyph technique. Tamilinux group also created the TSCII PSF font and key-mapping for typing Tamil in console. After that, due to increase in Indic support in GUI, no effect for UTF-8 Indic support in console. Bye :) -- Bharathi S _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
