[smc-discuss] Terminal emulator that can display Malayalam

Pirate Praveen praveen at onenetbeyond.org
Wed Aug 4 00:55:10 PDT 2021



2021, ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 4 8:06:07 AM IST, Julin S <julinshaji01 at gmail.com>ൽ എഴുതി
>Hi.
>
>Is there a terminal emulator for linux that can display Malayalam characters
>properly?
>
>I tried gnome-terminal (3.28.2) and konsole (17.12.3) on an Ubuntu 18.04
>computer.
>
>Display is almost perfect in konsole except that the letter ന്‍ (a
>'chillaksharam') shows up as 'ന്<200d>' in it.
>
>In gnome-terminal's rendering, adjacent letters overlap, making the text
>illegible.
>
>My locale is utf8 and the text displays properly in GUI text editors. I can
>even create files with Malayalam names which are displayed properly in the
>gui
>file explorer.So I suppose this problem is not because of the absence of a
>suitable font.
>
>And the following packages are already installed:
>
> - fonts-smc
> - fonts-samyak-mlym
> - fonts-mlym
> - fonts-lohit-mlym
>
>Does anyone know of a way to display Malayalam text properly in terminal?
>Using
>any terminal emulator for linux?

Emacs terminal mode in graphical emacs and shell mode used to work well, but I have not used it for many years.

>Thanks.

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