Re: internationalised terminal for gnome

[Suresh Chandrasekharan <suresh chandrasekharan eng sun com>]

Thanks for the information, I will cc this to Michael Zuchhi who did the UTF-8 
support in zvtterm ( he's the author of base code too ), I was not following the 
xfree86 discussion for utf8 cut and paste.

>is it following the proposed UTF8 cut and paste proposal discussed
>in XFree86 list ?
>
>> What it doesn't do:
>>  - bi-width fonts for better CJK rendering.  This is probably not
>> particularly hard to add with a routine to determine which characters to
>> display 2x width.
>
>bi-width must not be the goal.
>multi-width is (with the width of chars (being 0, 1 or 2) get trough
>the appropriate function of the libc).
>multi-width is necessary for proper displaying of Thai for example,
>but also when composing diacritics (those in the 0x0300 range) are
>used.
>
>> - font matching/re-encoding, in Unicode mode it assumes the font is
>> unicode coded, or iso-latin-1, if it is an 8 bit font.
>
>Maybe some ideas can be taken from "yudit" (http://www.yudit.org/);
>I'm able with it to display correctly a text using a mix of chars
>that none of my fonts provide; that is yudit uses various fonts
>to cover the output.

Thanks for these two pieces of info.

regards,
suresh