[Debian-in-workers] Bug#523388: Bug#523388: Bug#523388: Hindi font rendering

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Hi Kapil

On Thursday 16 Apr 2009 14:36:23 Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
> > From what I understood till now about fonts, I guess this problem is
> > specific to the way terminal fonts are rendered.
>
> There are some problems with the way terminals work which makes it
> difficult to fix the problem. Roughly speaking, to render indic fonts
> correctly, the terminal would have to re-draw each line each time a
> character is input. There are some patches to "mlterm" to do this but
> these are not enabled by default.
>
> It is easier for browsers since these render the entire page and there
> is no re-drawing required. I am not sure how the recent emacs handles
> this (it does indic fonts correctly).
>
I think then that this bug should be re-assigned to the "konsole" package. 
I'll re-assign it today evening unless someone thinks otherwise.

> The bug is not with Indic fonts package. The purpose of the font
> packages is to correctly provide glyphs for various unicode
> (wide-)chars as specified by the Unicode definitions. The rest of the
> work is the job of applications and libraries.
>
This should justify that it is an application problem.

Ritesh
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Ritesh Raj Sarraf
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