Re: Thai/Devanagari in GNOME Terminal

[Steve Underwood <steveu coppice org>]

Chookij Vanatham wrote:

> 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.... :)

Other Indic languages have the same issues. The input methods I saw in India
reorder the input to a standardised form, but then the output method does the same
thing again. It seemed they did not trust the content of files, and were determined
to never display anything which is syntactically incorrect. Those systems will
display a single valid cell, regardless of the order of the components forming it.
They also have logic so that poorly formed cells may not be displayed at all. It
seemed strange to me that there could be stuff in a file which is completely
invisible on output. This didn't seem to be a selectable feature, at least on the
systems I saw.

Regards,
Steve