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Re: Xft and complex unicode rendering

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krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org writes:
>First, there is a lack of Unicode support for terminals for rendering compo=
>site characters in languages with multiple code points, e.g. Telugu. The Gn=
>ome terminal, under Linux, certainly doesn't support it, and a search on th=
>e web does not seem to turn up anything. Does a decent terminal under Linux=
> which supports complex text exist?

I dimly remember that I used an uxterm (and that functionality has
supposedly been absorbed into xterm when you use the appropriate
settings (LANG etc.)) for my experiments with Unicode and xchars, and
also successfully experimented with composing characters: E.g., take a
look at Figure 1 in
<http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/euroforth/ef05/ertl-paysan05.pdf>.
I think that the contents of the ." in the line after the "pad 9 type"
uses composite characters.

Some years later I tried to repeat the experiments (using either the
Gforth history or another file containing the input I used in my first
experiments, but had problems getting all (or even the majority of)
these characters to display properly; apparently the then-available
fonts I tried (I tried several) no longer included the more exotic
characters:-(.  In particular, I think that they did not include the
characters of the part with the composing characters.

I hope things are getting better again after getting worse.

- anton
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Xft and complex unicode rendering krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2017-05-01 08:13 -0700
  Re: Xft and complex unicode rendering krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2017-05-01 08:27 -0700
    Re: Xft and complex unicode rendering krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2017-05-06 09:21 -0700
  Re: Xft and complex unicode rendering anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-05-02 13:54 +0000
    Re: Xft and complex unicode rendering krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2017-05-02 14:54 -0700
      Re: Xft and complex unicode rendering anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-05-04 10:51 +0000
        Re: Xft and complex unicode rendering krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2017-05-04 04:47 -0700
          Re: Xft and complex unicode rendering krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2017-05-04 05:02 -0700
    Re: Xft and complex unicode rendering krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2017-05-02 19:24 -0700
      Re: Xft and complex unicode rendering anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-05-04 10:50 +0000
        Re: Xft and complex unicode rendering krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2017-05-04 04:42 -0700
          Re: Xft and complex unicode rendering Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-05-04 13:21 +0100
  Re: Xft and complex unicode rendering Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de> - 2017-05-02 23:14 +0000
    Re: Xft and complex unicode rendering krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2017-05-02 18:31 -0700
      Re: Xft and complex unicode rendering Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de> - 2017-05-06 01:25 +0000

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