Dear Thomas,
>2. To be specific, I am talking about the characters based on Indian Script >FOnt > >Code (INSFOC) which is generally described as ASCII fonts. More read at: >http://tdil.mit.gov.in/insfoc.pdf This seems to be an ad-hoc encoding promoted by C-DAC. From what I gather, C-DAC fonts are not unicode aware. What you want to do is to input glyphs from those fonts to whichever editor you are using. Why don't you try opening the respective font using Character Map utility and find the glyph code? I don't know, that _might_ work. >3. There are many editors for encoding INSFOC characters like ISM2000 ISFOC >Script Manager, LEAP etc.What I meant, I do not depend any such editors. In >stead I encode it directly to any editing programs such as PM/OO.o or even >Notepad.exe I don't get it. What you mean is, suppose a program displays a particular glyph for a combination of letters, you want it to be reflected in a text editor too? Then why not go for a text input method? Like, SCIM [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCIM]. SCIM doesn't require you to by-heart/master all the numerical combination to input a glyph. No offense, but going by the the Alt+0633 methods you suggest is pretty brain dead -- please don't hate me for saying it. More about input methods: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_method Input methods doesn't tie you to a particular software or an editor. You can use it across all keyboard-aware applications -- including OO.o, GEdit, Terminal, to name a few. Please tell me this is what you are looking for. > >>All GNU/Linux systems support almost all character sets _including_ ASCII. >>You > >>don't necessarily have to need ASCII to use Sribus or LaTeX or whatever. >4. Just tell me how to do that. That is my question. I mean how to >display/input > >INSFOC characters. You don't have to do that. What you intend to type is INSFOC independant. You don't have to think at ASCII or INSFOC-level. Think character's and glyphs. Heck, there was even a session on how to fluidly type Malayalam in OO.o in one of the past ILUG sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/sreenadh/malayalam-with-open-office A bit old link, but hope this helps: http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html >>Looks to me like a font problem. Are they Unicode fonts? >5. It is not the font problem. In the screenshot image, I've clearly written >what is the ASCII (INSFOC) font and Unicode font. The problem font is ISFOC >font. My knowledge is little or none regarding INSFOC but I gather it is not a font table in compliance to UCS (ISO 10646). GNU/Linux uses UCS heavily for character encoding, and UTF-8 is one method it follows for storing info. If you still encounter problems, charge C-DAC fonts to something that is following UCS code page tables. ONE reason where you are encountering a wrong glyph might be because you enter a glyph code number corresponding to Windows code page, which might be entirely different in GNU/Linux systems. Best of luck, Mahesh Aravind _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
