> > Does anyone know if another Malayalam-capable terminal now exists? > > > > I tried copying the string “മലയാളം” from the Malayalam Wikipedia page into Gnome > > Terminal, and it looks okay to me, but I really don’t know what I’m looking for. That word “മലയാളം” doesn't have any character that exhibit the complex script nature (such as ligatures, glyph reordering etc.) so it may appear correct in most applications. Try “ടൈപോഗ്രഫി” (reads ‘typography’) and it should correctly show as in the attached screenshot. > > Answering my own question, reportedly Konsole supports Malayalam. (https://smc.org.in/en/articles/malayalam-linux-console/). Konsole did have excellent complex text shaping since long ago, but there were regressions for a (rather long) period but it got fixed circa 2020 (see [1] for some details). > I shall drop the emacs-terminal subpackage from rawhide. I know a number of friends who enjoyed excellent Malayalam shaping (and editing) in Emacs for many years. To my knowledge, Emacs used its own shaping in the past (it is using Harfbuzz now), and is not dependent on the terminal for shaping text. I'm a Vim user (which _seem_ to shape complex text correctly; but unfortunately doesn't support proportional fonts so editing is impossible as Malayalam and most Indic scripts don’t [rather can’t, without sacrificing readability] have monospace fonts); thus I’m unsure whether this will adversely affect the users. [1] https://rajeeshknambiar.wordpress.com/2020/05/19/complex-text-shaping-fixed-in-konsole-20-08/
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