Re: Indic languages with pango!!

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 14:34, Noah Levitt wrote:
> Nothing special, just gedit.

However, Red Hat 8 isn't new enough to have Indic support.
Red Hat 9, Fedora Core 1, or RHEL 3 will support Hindi
in gedit if you install OpenType fonts. (Except for printing.)

Regards,
					Owen


> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 18:42:58 +0100, Mehta, Anish wrote:
> > Thanks a lot for responding. Can you tell me something more about what i 
> > should do in order to view the indic language contents. What are the 
> > files that i should download in order to add support to gedit for 
> > viewing my file.
> > 
> > 
> > Noah Levitt wrote:
> > 
> > >Pango is a text layout and rendering library. Any editor
> > >that uses it will support Indic scripts. One such editor is
> > >gedit.
> > >
> > >Noah
> > >
> > >On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 17:29:26 +0100, Mehta, Anish wrote:
> > > 
> > >
> > >>Hello everyone,
> > >>
> > >>I am looking for an text editor which can handle indic languages 
> > >>properly.  I want to see some text written in "hindi" using windows 
> > >>notepad or msword. As i am not finding any good editor which can display 
> > >>properly the indian languages on linux. I hope there is one named 
> > >>"pango". If this displays hindi properly then ,can someone let me know 
> > >>which  files  i should download for my system. The version of pango 
> > >>which has the support for indic languages using opentype fonts.
> > >>I am using RedHat 8.0.
> > >>
> > >>Thanks in advance.
> > >>
> > >>With best regards,
> > >>
> > >>Anish MEHTA
> 
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