On 2009-01-11, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Yue Wu wrote: >> You could have a try rxvt-unicode, it has better unicode support. > > No, it can't. I guess that indic is a complex script. I just give up > xterm for displaying it, at least I can use gtk/pango to render them.
They are. I don't know the exact terminology but the "mathras" are complex, requiring the base character to have something placed above, or below, or both, or even for part of the base character to be modified to accommodate. My native tongue is Telugu, and if you look in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indic_scripts#Vowels to the second of the two column under Telugu, you'll see what I mean. The base character "ka" looks like an "S" with a tick mark on top of it, and the list shown is "kaa", "ki", "kee", etc.. When you get to the "kai" (NLAC code ai) you will see it requires two "mathras", one above and one below. We had (in $DAYJOB, as part of CSR work) done a lot of work fixing the font rendering engines to accomodate these things -- mostly on pango, but it's been a while, and I just assumed that the changes must have filtered down to other software that uses/renders fonts. Contact me in private email if needed; the two main guys in that team have left the company now but I can still ask for help or advice (they started a company called Synovel, and they make spicebird if you've heard of it). It's all open source, fed back to gnome (one of those guys had gnome commit access!) and they'll do what they can to help, within the constraints of running their own company in these times... [sorry for sounding like spam, but all this is open source work and I'm not mentioning my company's name so I hope it won't be taken as a plug for anything remotely commercial!] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
