Re: Thai/Devanagari in GNOME Terminal

[Chookij Vanatham <chookij vanatham eng sun com>]

] 
] > Again, what's if those sequences are in the text file already,
] > I still don't want to see them being displayed the same.
] > 
] > Again, input methods should not be confused with output methods.
] > Input methods can prevent these but there is one mode in that
] > input methods not to check any invalid sequence and I use it
] > to input invalid sequence to teach Thai kid that this's not
] > the right way to spell it. Hopefully, that Thai user person
] > wouldn't tell me not to input it...Right ? too much to control users.
] > Users come first.... :)
] 
] Well, yeah. But there are other things the IM can do. e.g. bleep. Or send
] U+FFFD. Or anything.
Well, I'm not trying to convince but just trying to point the fact.
What's if I use "vi" or other editors to read Thai text file which has both
valid and invalid sequences. This means that I don't use IM so IM module
shouldn't be able to detect this.

Then, if we are going to display those invalid sequence with U+FFFD
(this is fine by me too) does it mean that wcwidth() is enough to check
if which vowel/tonemark is the valid sequence without checking the type of
previous character.

Another reason, this checking for invalid sequence for the display,
shouldn't it be in the engine, rather than in terminal ?
That's why I think that we should use Pango..... ?

] 
] > Does it mean that the sequence (2) which is not spelling correctly in Thai
] > is going to consider that it's equivalent to the seq (1) which is the 
correct
] > one ? 
] > Hmm!!! I think it's getting confused more, isn't it ?
] 
] I undertand the point you are making. But I understand it, it's not so
] much a spelling error, as an "encoding" error, and the only reason they
] have to be treated as errors is due to the inadequacies of the software.
] Surely it is better to remove these inadeqacies?
Not quite sure about this.
What would be the suggestion, then ?

Chookij V.

] 
] > Let me think more if I can find one... :)
] 
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