[Debian-in-workers] Bengali in new Debian Installer

[Soumyadip Modak]

On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 13:40 +0600, Omi Azad wrote:
> Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
> 
> >AFAICS, Debian itself is not Unicode 4.1.0 compliant yet (the unstable version 
> >of console-data has [1] /usr/share/unidata/UnicodeData-4.0.1d1b.txt). The 
> >change is the addition of one (moderately rare) code point, but the font 
> >editor we use (fontforge) doesn't know about it yet (I haven't checked the 
> >CVS version recently though). 
> >
> >In any case, this is a minor problem (that will get solved eventually), and 
> >more importantly, completely orthogonal to the issue at hand.
> >
> >Deepayan
> >  
> >
> But Unicode 4.1.0 works fine in my Ubuntu 5.04 box. Windows and it's 
> range of software also doesn't have any update yet, but that works fine 
> without any problem. It's just a character besides a particular code, so 
> there should not be any problem getting the output if we fix the font. 
> In fact I'm not getting any problem in both Windows and Linux. I just 
> added the codepoint in the glyph with FontLab (Windows) and it's working 
> well. You can check it by downloading any of the font from 
> http://www.ekushey.org.

What Deepayanda probably meant is that there are significant parts of
Debian-specific (and by extension Ubuntu-specific) software that is not
Unicode 4.1.0 compliant. The compliance of the Desktop portion of the
distribution doesn't mean we can call the distribution Unicode 4.1.0
compliant. Of course the modularity of a *nix system maybe a trifle too
difficult to understand for people used to MS Windows :)

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