Re: internationalised terminal for gnome

[Suresh Chandrasekharan <suresh chandrasekharan eng sun com>]

Thanks Robert, may be these things are easier now due to the work done by people 
like you. Certainly we are aiming at a complex text layout with bidi/character 
cluster support etc.
regards,
suresh

>> 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.  (what i mean is using 2x width characters for asian
>> characters, and 1x for other characters).
>
>When I added such a feature to xterm, it was more than a little effort,
>and only recently have all the bugs got shaken out. But this is probably
>largely due to xterm.
>
>xterm in XF86 4.0.2 now also does combining character support, and an
>alpha version does chars > U+10000, bidi, arabic shaping, Xim, and proper
>support for things like EUC-JP/EUC-KR/Big5/ISO-8859-6/8, and so forth. I'd
>aim for that sort of level of support in zvt.
>
>-- 
>Robert Brady
>robert suse co uk
>
>
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