Hi Richard, > My main interest in this, though, is in improving the general run of > Indic terminal cell editors. If we can get Gnome-terminal working for > Kharoshthi, things should improve for LTR Indic. Even working on the > false assumption that Indic scripts are like Devanagari would be an > improvement, despite my comments about Khmer.
So, as for concrete bugs, there's the aforementioned VTE bug 584160. You might want to give the pending patches a try, or (to keep the relevant discussion at one place) comment over there about your desired priorities etc. We've also set up a "Terminal WG" on freedesktop (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/terminal-wg), a place intended for specifications. If you/we feel like certains bits around Devanagari/Khmer/etc. handling need a proper specification before we could jump to the implementation, probably that would be the best platform to discuss that. Reason being that I don't know when I'd be able to address them, if ever, but there are multiple terminal emulator developers waiting there for such challenges. Also, IMHO a bugtracker is a better forum than a mailing list if parties can't all immediately work on the problem :) I'm definitely aiming to fix the basic Devanagari rendering (that is: spacing marks), for this autumn's VTE release. Maybe even for this spring's. I probably won't do more (like Virama), they'll have to wait for the HarfBuzz port. cheers, egmont