[smc-discuss] Incorrect display of Malayalam in Terminal (Ubuntu 10.04)

[Mahesh T. Pai]

Praveen A said on Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 12:39:27PM +0530,:

 > Because it is designed to be monospace (all glyphs are expected to
 > be of same width, which is not suitable for Malayalam). Swapnil,
 > Mihir and Saurabh from College of Engineering Pune is working on
 > this as their final year project. They have got some progress but
 > there are lot of extra spaces because of the monospace design. They
 > are looking for a solution, if anyone is interested to work with
 > them please reply.

The IIT Madras (oh, those sweet nostalgic names!!!) had done some work
on this. Since this required some kernel work, the patch was submitted
to the Kernel team, but Linus shot it down. 

Hope this team is not re-inventing the wheel. 


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