Re: hindi xlation

2004-08-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Rajesh Menon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi Christian, > I have been told by people working on the Hindi translations to other distro's that > the indic fonts, up until now will not render right in anything which doesnt support > ttf fonts. And that the text installer is not going to turn out

Re: hindi xlation

2004-08-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 09:21:24AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Rajesh Menon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi Christian, > > I have been told by people working on the Hindi translations to other distro's > > that the indic fonts, up until now will not render right in anything which doesnt

Re: hindi xlation

2004-08-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Can you provide us the the Unicode codes of all characters needed for > > Hindi (or are there too much characters needed for such a list to be realistic?) > > Hindi uses an alphabetic writing system, so this shouldn't be too > problematic. The unif

Re: hindi xlation

2004-08-17 Thread Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
Steve Langasek написав: > > Hindi uses an alphabetic writing system, so this shouldn't be too > problematic. The unifont package may even include the characters > already. > Hindi uses combining characters, this is main problem. I am not sure whether bterm and jfbterm support combining character

Re: hindi xlation

2004-08-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 01:42:41PM +0300, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote: > Steve Langasek ÑÐÐ: > > Hindi uses an alphabetic writing system, so this shouldn't be too > > problematic. The unifont package may even include the characters > > already. > Hindi uses combining characters, this is main