[smc-discuss] Fwd: GNOME-Terminal -- Complex script support

[Saji Nediyanchath]

Praveenetta,
I'm unable to view the embedded images. I think there has been some error in
the embedding.

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Praveen A <pravi.a at gmail.com> wrote:

> from Swapnil, Mihir, Saurabh, [sneak peak of their work, I have asked them
> to blog about it]
>
> We have tried to solve the rendering problem for Indic scripts
> (particularly for Devnagari) in gnome-terminal.
>
> fig1 below shows the incorrect rendering in the current version for
> gnome-terminal.
>
> [image: previous_vte.png]
>
> fig2 shows the correct rendering due to the changes that we made to the
> code to vte.
>
> [image: updated_vte.png]
>
> Now the* problem* with these modifications is the extra space (as shown in
> fig2 with a red circle) between the two adjacent characters when a
> non-zero width conjuct is added. These spaces break the word, so they are
> not desirable. We thought of solving this problem by using a buffer
> technique i.e buffer the whole word and then display it as a whole.
>
>
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