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

[Jamil Ahmed]

Soumyadip Modak wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 13:40 +0600, Omi Azad wrote:
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>>Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
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>>>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). 
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>>>In any case, this is a minor problem (that will get solved eventually), and 
>>>more importantly, completely orthogonal to the issue at hand.
>>>
>>>Deepayan
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>>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.
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>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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So what is the solution now? :)

`Jamil