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      1. Mozilla indic support via sun.unicode.india-0 encoded fonts
           From: alo...@so...
      2. Take a look at this....
           From: Gopi Garge <go...@ex...>

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Message: 1
   Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 09:26:22 -0600
   From: alo...@so...
Subject: Mozilla indic support via sun.unicode.india-0 encoded fonts

Hi list, 

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166520
says: 

>  On Redhat 8, what you have is Xft-build of Mozilla that doesn't
> make use of hindi shaper even when CTL is enabled. Currently,
> hindi shaper is only used for Mozilla-X11core (plain gtk without
> Xft or Xlib). When you run Mozilla-Xft with the environment variable
> GDK_USE_XFT set to 0, you'll see that Devanagari gets rendered
> properly assuming that you have X11 core fonts with SunIndic encoding.

Ok, I'm using Mozilla 1.4RC1 on Redhat 8 via gnome.
I installed the SunIndic encoded fonts (saraswati) in
/usr/local/share/fonts/bitmap , 

[alok@localhost bitmap]$ more fonts.dir
2
SaraswatiBold24.pcf.gz
 -cdac-saraswati-bold-r-normal-devanagari-25-240-75-75-p-240-sun.unicode.indi 
a-0
SaraswatiNormal24.pcf.gz
 -cdac-saraswati-medium-r-normal-devanagari-25-240-75-75-p-240-sun.unicode.in 
dia-0 

[alok@localhost bitmap]$ xset q
Keyboard Control:
 auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00000000
 auto repeat delay:  500    repeat rate:  30
 auto repeating keys:  00ffffffdffffbbf
                       fa9fffffffdffdff
                       ffffffffffffffff
                       ffffffffffffffff
 bell percent:  50    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  100
Pointer Control:
 acceleration:  2/1    threshold:  4
Screen Saver:
 prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  yes
 timeout:  0    cycle:  0
Colors:
 default colormap:  0x20    BlackPixel:  0    WhitePixel:  16777215
Font Path: 

/home/alok/.gnome2/share/cursor-fonts,unix/:7100,/usr/local/share/fonts/bitm 
ap,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/X11R6/ 
lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/share/fonts/indic/OpenType,/home/alok/.gnome2/share 
/fonts
Bug Mode: compatibility mode is disabled
... 

So this directory /usr/local/share/fonts/bitmap is in my fontpath now. 

Now using a terminal session i do 

$ export GDK_USE_XFT=0
$ /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla #Mozilla 1.4 RC 1 

However, even now the devanagari pages are rendered incorrectly.
Firstly, in
Edit->Preferences->Fonts For->Devanagari, the options Serif thru Monospace
don't have the Saraswati font listed. Nor in proportional. 

Fonts for Unicode doesn't have them either.
And the rendering is done using the listed fonts, ie if I change the font 
from
here, the font gets changed in the rendered page as well, and I know that it 
is
not saraswati font. 

So what' wrong? Doesn't the env variable setting work? If not, how can I 
test
this feature? If yes, is there some tweaking required with respect to the
FontPath? 

I posted this to news:netscape.public.mozilla.i18n , waiting for a reply 
from the i18n'ers there.
In the meantime if any of you have already tried this, it'll be a great help 
to know of your experiences. 

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Message: 2
   Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 16:55:08 +0530 (IST)
   From: Gopi Garge <go...@ex...>
Subject: Take a look at this....

http://www.iiitb.ac.in/R&D/iiit-b%20Report%20on%20Indian%20Language%20Software%20Market%20(MAIT%20funded)%20Executive%20Summary%20Feb%202000.htm

--Gopi Garge

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