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Re: hello + UTF8



On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, || स�Mव�U�Mष || svaksha  wrote:

Strangely, this problem does not occur with the diirga (long) svara or
any other svaras.  Is it possible that since the rhasva (short) svara
(U+093F) occurs first (when moving from left to right), it should also
be implemented first but usually we always write the consonants first
and then the svara....... Maybe the program implements it that way and
hence the error...... Just a thought that crossed my mind !
Btw, even vyanjanasandhi (tra, kr, hr, ksh,...) does not render
properly (as we usually write it). Reading it is difficult
sometimes...  but thats for another thread :-)



I am in the middle of preparing a mozilla package with some patches added
which may help.  But its not finished yet.

Can you refer any docus to read ... I saw  Pango.org and [1].


1. Which font are you using?


In Ubuntu4.10, the Character map {Applications>Accessories>Character
Map> Devanagari} allows 'drag-cut-paste' feature to create words,
which renders properly on that dialog box. This can be pasted on any
document.
I dont use the keyboard as yet. Do I need to download fonts for this.
Is there a howto for Ubuntu/Debian.


The fonts are for display. If you are seeing any devanagari characters at all, you must have some font containing those characters installed. In Debian/Ubuntu there is a package called ttf-devanagari-fonts (older version before the scripts were split up was ttf-indic-fonts) Do you have this package installed? In fact from the command-line do:

$ dpkg-query --show *fonts

and send me the output.


2. Do you see the problem in all GTK-based apps or only some?  If so which
    ones.

The problem occurs when the text is pasted on any application like
firefox mozilla, OO and plain text files when i use gedit, etc...
The character map (used to drag, cut and paste words) is a part of the
Ubuntu distro as much as the gedit or firefox applications so why is
the word correctly displayed there and jumbles when pasted on another
application ? That is perplexing !


All these apps use an underlying code library called pango to render text. If this is where the problem lies, it will affect all apps. However, I have succesfully used Devanagari text in pango-using apps (mozilla being an exception) so I now think this could be a font-related problem.

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