Hi, At Wed, 11 Apr 2001 18:36:52 +0200, Stefan Baums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about Indian scripts? In Devanagari typesetting, one akshara > (consonant [+ vowel [+ anusvara / visarga]] cluster) takes up roughly > as much horizontal space as two latin-script letters, is certainly > square in shape, and the space is needed for all the details of the > akshara. A Devanagari font that is supposed to be used with a 9x18 > latin one should probably be 18x18. You may be right, I don't know about Indian scripts well. However, this is design problem. I don't know Indian people need this from the point of view of backward compatibility to their own softwares. If Indian people have (de-facto) standard how to use Indian scripts on computers, I am completely wrong. Any examples? (I may be wrong because Mule/Emacs can handle doublewidth and triplewidth non-CJK characters.) --- Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://surfchem0.riken.go.jp/~kubota/ "Introduction to I18N" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/lists/
