Re: [Mlterm-dev-en] Regarding rendering of Bengali

[<dee...@ii...>]

Hello!

First of all I would like to congratulate you for creating this wonderful
software, and for the time and effort you are investing on making Bengali
work.  Nothing beats a terminal for efficiency, and working in my mother
tongue would really make it a wonderful experience for me.

I have the following to report -
1) I adopted method B.
2) The installation of mlterm went smoothly.
3) While trying to install the wrapper, I had to make a change in the file
xwindow/libtype/fc-wrapper.c -
#include <freetype/freetype.h> to #include<freetype2/freetype.h>
4) I started mlterm as you had directed and the boxes are gone.  Thank you
again for all your effort.
5) There is one problem with one of the letters.  I am again sending you a
screenshot with how it should look(gedit) and how it is looking(first
attachment).
6) Could you suggest how to increase the display area for mlterm?  For
instance, an "ls" on a directory only occupies what looks like 80
columns(second screenshot).  I tried some combinations of --wscr and
--hscr but I did not get the desired result.

Thanks a lot for your time.

Regards,
Deepanjan


>  Hi,
>
> From: dee...@ii...
> Subject: [Mlterm-dev-en] Regarding rendering of Bengali
> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 12:22:05 +0530
> Message-ID:
> <e35...@we...>
>
>> I am trying to use mlterm for my mother tongue Bengali which is part of
>> Indic script.  Though Hindi(devanagari) rendering is okay, I find a few
>> boxes in Bengali rendering.  Can somebody help me with this?
>
>  I've investigated this problem, and I understand why some (0x80-0x9f)
> indic
> glyphs of ISCII fonts are replaced by rectangular boxes.
>  It is necessary to fix fontconfig.
>
>  Please install hg head mlterm (which includes fixes for rendering
> Bengali)
> and do either (A) or (B) in order not to show rectangular boxes.
>  ((B) is easier than (A))
>
> (A) Apply http://mlterm.sf.net/fontconfig-2.8.0-fix4indic.patch then
> rebuild
>   fontconfig.
> (B) Build libfc_wrapper.so from xwindow/libtype/fc_wrapper.c and preload
> it.
>
>  Please try following steps.
>
> 1) Get https://bitbucket.org/arakiken/mlterm/get/tip.tar.gz
> 2) Unpack it and execute following commands.
>   $ ./configure --enable-ind --with-type-engines=xcore,xft,cairo ...
>   $ make
>   $ make install
>   $ cd xwindow/libtype
>   $ make libfc_wrapper.la
>   $ make install_fc_wrapper
>   $ chmod 755 (INSTALLED DIRECTORY)/bin/mlterm
>   $ LD_PRELOAD=(INSTALLED DIRECTORY)/lib/mlterm/libfc_wrapper.so mlterm
> -ind -bi=false ...
>
>  http://mlterm.sf.net/mlterm-indic-elinks2.png is the screenshot of
> browsing
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/bengali.
>
>  If mlterm uses unicode fonts to rendering indic scripts in the future,
> these hacks will be unnecessary.
>
>  Regards,
> ---
> Araki Ken
> ara...@us...
>
>