Re: [Indic-computing-users] Problem with KDE support for UTF-8 indic fonts

[Guntupalli K. <kar...@fr...>]

On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 10:29:10 +0530
Sandip Bhattacharya <sa...@li...> wrote:

> 
> 
> [ A small question kept nagging me. Why are so many people seemingly
> trying to get GNOME support Indic languages properly, but I dont see
> much work on the KDE front? Even though in my experience, most of
> the users migrating to Linux prefer KDE for its resemblence to the
> Windoze world? No flamewar intended here please. Was just a
> thought.] 
> 
> My first naive attempt at making a bangla
> webpage (http://www.puroga.com/banglatest.html) met with disaster
> when I found out that mozilla still doesn't support Indic combining
> characters very well.(Screenshot comparison of source and display at
> http://www.puroga.com/banglatest.jpg) But at 
> least I could make out what the webpage is trying to say. 
> 
 Mozilla CVS has some rendering stuff for Devanagari though using some
font encoding . OpenOffice developer releases also have Indic
rendering supported.

> But you can see from the window title of mozilla that KDE hasn't
> been able to even try to find out the font involved. Is this still
> on KDE's todo list? Indic rendering (or maybe Unicode based fonts) I
> mean.
> 
 Yeah, it is! Indic rendering for KDE will come from Qt. Right now Qt
3.x has basic unicode support for Indic.
I am in touch with Qt developers for this. There have been few threads
on kde-i18n-doc list in this context. Since Qt has a wider domain (
not just KDE ), so it will take some more time for stuff to come up
(4-6 months). Issue in Qt is whether to make a solution based on some
font encoding have a quick fix  or take more time & do opentype stuff
.

Regards,
Karunakar

-- 
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