Re: Support for Indian languages

On Sunday, August 11, 2013 12:48:39 AM UTC+5:30, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On 08/10/13 21:06, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
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> > On 08/10/13 19:15, Arnab Bhattacharya wrote:
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> >> I guess the support for Indian languages is still very shaky.
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> >> Has there been any recent improvements in rendering the fonts correctly?
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> >>
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> > AFAIK, Vim has no real support for Brahmic scripts (devanagari,
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> > gujarati, bengali, et al.). No change is expected at any predictable
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> > future time, until or unless some user interested in such scripts
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> > decides to take it upon him- or herself to add the necessary C
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> > module(s), the way Nadim Shaikli added Arabic support a few years ago.
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>
>
> P.S. If you think you have the necessary expertise, then go ahead: the
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> Vim source is available to anyone. If you can't do it yourself but know
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> someone who can, try to convince them to do it. In other cases, — well,
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> you're just as badly put as anyone else in the list interested in
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> Brahmic scripts and Indian languages (other than urdu).
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> >
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> > Best regards,
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> > Tony.
>
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> personal gain, no matter how important that gain might be.
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I see.
Still, it is sad to see that while even editors such as gedit supports it, vim cannot.
This will probably force many users like me to move out of the habit of using vim for everything.
Arnab

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