Re: [LI] Linux in Hindi...

[Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 06:10:21PM -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
> A good place to always start off is the standards.  Brush up on your
> unicode.  AFAIK, the unicode consortium has defined a block of codes for
> hindi.  The specifics of which code stands for which glyph is not
> standardized.  Also, to get a complex glyph you'd have to overlay smaller
> glyphs.

Actually, the code -> glyph mapping has also been standardized:

http://charts.unicode.org/Unicode.charts/glyphless/U0900.html#Glyphs

For other languages check this:

http://charts.unicode.org/Unicode.charts/glyphless/Unicode.html

The biggest problem is the lack of good fonts. The TTF font renderers
are on Linux are not upto the task. Once we have good fonts, yudit
will suffice to create content. As far as the text/kernel is concerned,
we just need some good console fonts, which support devanagari.

	-Arun
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