On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 02:08 +0100, Skywalker wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using linux for a while and have been unable to use 'dhivehi' fonts > or 'thaana script' in any linux distro. Problem appears to be that X does not > have a suitable keymap for dhivehi fonts. > > On the other hand, on most mircsoft applications, people who use thaana script > (in the Maldives) can use most of the word processing applications amongst > others. Regarding this i have posted a bug 3176 > (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3716) on 2005-07-06 and have > not recieved a reply yet. > > Keeping in mind that the developers must be really be busy, I'd like to know > what else I can do to bring this issue to the attention of the developers. I don't think this has anything to do with fontconfig ... fontconfig should be able to handle Thaana fonts without any changes. You'll get a bit better support from fontconfig if you add a Divehi "orthography" to fontconfig .. adding a file div.orth to fontconfig/fc-lang with the appropriate Unicode ranges. But that's a lot more important for languages that use a variant of a different script. For a language like Divehi that has an unque script, it won't matter much. Though I think you could get OK rendering of Thaana without any special rendering support, to fully support OpenType Thaana fonts, you would need support in the rendering layer: for instance a Pango module. See: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/OpenType%20Dev/thaana/intro.mspx For what needs to be supported. This wouldn't be a very hard module to write, and you could ask for volunteers on gtk-i18n-list@xxxxxxxxx Are the freely distributable Thaana fonts available? The question of X keyboard maps is a messy one, and I'm not really in a position to help you here. What might help in convincing someone to help you with that would be a pointer to a Divehi keyboard layout and information as to exactly how input works. Regards, Owen
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