Hi,
ext Andre Klapper wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 02.12.2008, 07:18 -0500 schrieb Screamin Ike:
>> One of my big pulls towards this particular device (which is the N810)
>> was that it runs linux, so I'm operating under the assumption that it
>> has a terminal emulator...
>
> It definitely has by default (osso-x-term).
>
>> I'm also under the assumption
>> that said terminal would have full unicode support (finch through
>> screen, anyone?).
>
> Not in general for the device, see
> https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1263 .
> The terminal is based on an older Busybox version (1.6), don't know for
> sure - also see https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2918 .
Unicode has different aspects:
* Use of unicode character set
+ supported, everything in UI uses UTF-8.
- Pre-installed Busybox shell doesn't have proper UTF-8 support,
but one can install e.g. Bash from the SDK repository for
interactive use (should work at least in Diablo).
* Support for the unicode fonts
+ supported:
- fonts are "unicode fonts".
- pango has support for using multiple fonts in case single
font doesn't cover all required glyphs.
* Support for the Unicode layout
+ supported, pango can do complicated glyph layout (bi-directional,
glyph composition etc) and this is plugin based so additional
layout engines can be added later on by 3rd parties
- Not sure whether this works in Browser, as Gecko does its
own text layouting for speed&control reasons.
- Gtk supports right-to-left layouts, but Hildon UI doesn't.
Terminal might also have issues with right-to-left languages
I assume.
* Fonts covering glyphs for the required unicode characters
+ This depends on what glyphs are required, it's not feasibly
to provide all define 32-bit unicode glyphs or even the 16-bit
subset (64 thousand different Glyphs) as the fonts would be huge
i.e. take too much RAM and Flash. There are a few free fonts which
cover larger set of Glyphs than the Nokia fonts and fontconfig
should handle their installation fine[1].
* String localization:
+ Device applications are translated only a to certain set
of languages, but if one wants to use some other language,
apps show so called "unique IDs" instead of english, which
makes the pre-installed applications fairly unusable in other
languages. I'm not sure what's the Nokia stand on 3rd party
translations.
I.e. pre-installed software has some understandable gaps in Unicode
coverage, but except for translations, it "should" be pretty easy for
the community to cover them if needed[1].
(All above is AFAIK. Test to be sure. :-))
- Eero
[1] I'm not commenting on the quality of the free unicode fonts with
larger Glyph coverage, but if really needed, I guess one could just buy
commercial TrueType fonts and put them into /home/user/.fonts/ &
(re-)run fc-cache.
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