--- Craig Bradney <cbradney at zip.com.au> wrote: [...] > Support is to be added in 1.3.x, not 1.3.0. That is, hopefully in the > next few versions we will get a new text system up and running that will > support more text features of more than just Indic.
Great. Is there a timeline for when the versions will be out? > How can you help? The answer to this is to provide sample unicode > text files with redistributable content, and screenshots of the same > text being rendered correctly in another application. You will need to > specify the font used as well. [...] OK, we at IndLinux are trying to get a comprehensive list of conjuncts prepared for all Indian languages, but for now I can provide you this for Oriya. The UTF-8 file of the list of conjuncts for Oriya is at http://oriya.sarovar.org/download/or_conjuncts.utf8. A HTML version is at http://oriya.sarovar.org/download/or_conjuncts.html, and displays properly in konqueror, or in a Indic-enabled Mozilla or Firefox (compiled with Pango or lib-m17n support. E.g., the Firefox in Fedora Core 4 works fine with Indic scripts). All of these files are in the public domain. http://oriya.sarovar.org/download/or_conjuncts_screenshots.tar.gz has screenshots of gedit 2.12 properly rendering the UTF-8 file. The OpenType, Unicode font used is available under the GPL at http://oriya.sarovar.org/download/utkal.ttf.gz. A fuller list of Indian language fonts is at http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/IndicFontsList. Please let me know if there is anything else that you require for Oriya. Finally, it might be possible for us to help in the programming for adding Indian language support to Scribus. Is there a need for that? Regards, Gora __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com
