On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am using Red Hat 7.1,glibc2.2 and XFree86-4.0.14
> I have 'tried rxvt2.7.3-multibyte' for indic font.

None of the UTF-8 terminal emulators or editors for Linux that I am aware
of supports the Indic script, because the X11 font mechanism is not at all
suited for rendering Indic. It lacks ligature substitution mechanisms and
cannot perform the character->glyph mapping required for Indic, Syriac,
etc.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/#xterm

There is no simple fix. If you want a solution, try writing a terminal
emulator based on the Pango complex script rendering library. Establish a
standard coded glyph collection of Indic presentation forms for terminal
emulators and then we can implement that quite easily.
http://www.pango.org/

Markus

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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org,  WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>

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