Brian Stell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Viveka Nathan K wrote:
> > ...
> > If I type the vowel character 'D' next to the consonant 'K', the already
> > printed consonant, should be removed and the character corresponding to the
> > combination of the Consonant+Vowel should be displayed.
>
> This is equivalent to ligatures and clearly needed for complex
> text languages such a Indian and Thai.
>
> Owen: does Pango support ligatures?
Yep; Pango supports a wide range of Indic languages. (And other
languages that require similar, if less complex processing.)
(Using special X fonts in Pango-1.0; the development branch of Pango
supports Indic OpenType fonts.)
Regards,
Owen
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