On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Tony Mechelynck < [email protected]> wrote:
> > Even in the first image, you can see that there is poor (if any) support > of the way nāgarī letters change when joined. The successive glyphs in a > word It seems this issue occurs in other Indian languages as well. On a CentOS 5 machine with Kannada Unicode installed, typing u+0C95 followed by u+0CBF produces a weird consonant-vowel combination. But I was surprised to see that the same problem does not occur in Eclipse. When the second unicode character is typed, it is correctly appended to the first one (after a bit of a delay). The same poor rendering of glyphs observed in VI occurs in a standard bash shell (Gnome terminal). So there is support for Indic scripts in some programs, but it doesn't appear to be there in a standard shell. It seems like this isn't so much a problem with VI as the underlying shell that's invoking it right? The way text is rendered on the shell prompt matches exactly with the way text is rendered in VI. > shouldn't just be placed next to each other unchanged, see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Devanagari_script#**Biconsonantal_conjuncts<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari_script#Biconsonantal_conjuncts>(and > some of the info elsewhere on that page too, in particular the > consonant-vowel combinations and the photograph of an Australian tram with > "incorrect" devanāgarī lettering in an advert). > I was staring at that advertisement for a while, but I don't quite see what you mean. There are no vowels in the middle of the word and it seems to be rendered ok. Where's the incorrect lettering? > > Of course, if the (Indian, or sanskriptologist, or…) user of Vim can see > different glyphs and understand what is being meant, it's better than > nothing, even if the rendering is less than perfect. > > I think rendering for Indic scripts has a long way to go. Even trying gmail's input tools with the same version of Firefox on two different OS's, I noticed that glyphs were not combined correctly on a Mac, but they seemed fine on a Windows machine. Perhaps the fonts were not correctly installed on the Mac, or perhaps there just isn't enough interest out there for someone to fix these bugs/standardize the way Indic fonts are rendered. > > Best regards, > Tony. > -- > Thanks, Ven -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
