Re: [Indic-computing-users] Re: Elx Linux... an Indian product

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>  Redhat uses Gnome 2, Gnome 2 uses the indic support in Pango. Use RH
> (Gnome) if you dont want to tinker much, else try Indix.

Karunakar is making his characteristic understatements here :).

The issue is more than one of simple ease of use.

If you use Gnome 2 and Pango, you get backwards compatibility 
with X servers and X terminals made two decades back and forward
compatibility all the way till X dies.  Further with GTK & Pango,
you can display indian language text side by side with other 
scripts in (Chinese, Korean, Arabic whatever) correctly.  There
are downsides to the Pango+GTK combination, but these are minor.

NCST IndiX offers none of these advantages; in fact, quite the
converse.  Existing X applications sometimes display garbled 
text under it (among its other faults).  

You may or may not come across this if you do ad-hoc 
testing.  However, the X test suite is readily available off 
the XFree86 site [via CVSup/CVS], and comes with tools that 
allow you to view the output of buggy servers conveniently.  
It takes about 15 minutes to setup and run (just follow the 
README) and confirm what I'm saying for yourself -- maybe you 
or Karunakar should try this out and satisfy yourselves.

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Joseph Koshy, FreeBSD Developer, http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy/
Founder/Manager/Programmer/Peon, The Indic-Computing Project
                                 http://indic-computing.sf.net

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