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> As for the complex input methods, the answer is
> probably going to be a resounding yes. Bengali has 65
> basic characters and 100+ conjunct consonants. Does
> cjk-lyx and X have support for producing one single
> character by typing several?
It is definitely possible (even without CJK patch),
provided all those 165+ glyphs are assigned codepoints
and an Input Method server is written.
However, it is not a common approach adopted in ISCII
and Unicode standards. The standard is to assign
codepoints only to those 65 basic characters and to
treat all other 100+ as a kind of ligatures stored as
metric informations in a font.
Unfortunately, Xlib charcter drawing functions do not
support ligature substitutions and any font formats
other than OpenType and Omega (font metric) do not seem
to support a powerful enough mechanism to process indic
scripts in full generality. So the difficulty lies not
in the input method but in the display (output) method.
Regards,
SMiyata
