On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Christian Perrier wrote: > By "glyph substitution", do you mean that depending on the place of a > given letter in a word, a different glyph has to be used. This is what > Arabic speaking people seem to call "shaping". >
Not quite the same though I guess some of the same principles are involved. Take my surname for instance. vya is actually one character which consists of half-letter va, half-letter ya and the vowel sign for long a. The physical shape of the character changes too. If you have a copy of the unicode standard it explains the algorithm in detail. > There is no shaping in d-i, so this area needs work also. Perhaps we should wait till d-i gets a gtk interface. Pango provides good support for this. It would be next to impossible to do it well in character mode I should think. > > > What fonts does this use? (bdf type1 ...) Any means of testing font > > rendering for the installer without actually having to do a install? > > I'm not a deep specialist of this. I leave this to other d-i contributors... > > > Up to now, I've got contacts from two people proposing their help in > hindi. See thread in debian-boot.... > Grr. They didn't cc me. Let me check in the archives. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/
