Hi,
I am Ratheesh , student of Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
I am working on enabling Linux console for Local languages. As the current
PSF format doesn't support variable width fonts , I have made a patch in
the console driver so that it will load a user defined multi-glyph mapping
table so that multiple glyphs can be displayed for a single character
code. All editing operations will also be taken care of.
Further, for Indian languages, there are various consonant/vowel modifiers
which result in complex character clusters. So I have extended the patch
to load user defined context sensitive parse rules for glyphs /
character codes as well. Again, all editing operations will behave
according to the parse rule specifications.
Even though the patch has been developed keeping Indian languages in mind,
I feel it will be applicable to many other languages (for eg. Chinese)
which require wider fonts on console or user defined parsing at I/O level.
Currently I have developed the patch for Kernel versions 2.2.14 and and am
in the process of making it for 2.2.16 and 2.2.17. I request people to
try out this patch and give comments and suggestions to me.
Those who want to try out this patch can send mail to me in the address
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The package , containing the patch , some documentation ,utilities and
sample files will come around 100 KB.
Thanking you,
Ratheesh
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Ratheesh K
Res: 242 Tapti, IIT Madras , Chennai-36, India Tel:+91-44-4459089
Lab: Distributed Systems& Optical Networks Lab,IIT Madras Tel:+91-44-4458353
www.ratheeshkvadhyar.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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