Re: Indic fonts

On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 10:38 AM Rudra Banerjee <bnrj.rudra@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Is there any plan to support indic scrips?
>
> I found only few appearance of this topic in Google search(one of them was by me on 2012), and hence clearly not a priority.
>
> One clue is gedit can do it fine, which is rather minimalist editor.

As you probably know better than I do, the problem with Indic scripts,
especially within a fixed-cell character grid like Vim's, is how to
make the transition from the sequence of individual consonantic and
vocalic Unicode codepoints to the sequence of glyphs to be presented
in the successive screen cells. A similar but maybe simpler problem
was solved some years ago about the Arabic script by Nadim Shaikli:
Arabic is a very cursive script where each consonant can have up to
four shapes depending (I'm simplifying) on its position within a word,
and in addition there are established separate glyphs to be used OT1H
for the sequences LLH (lillāh) and ALLH (Allāh) and OTOH for the
sequence LA (laam-alif) which is treated as a single letter. Nadim
solved it for the Arabic language but IIUC it could be used for Urdu
with hardly any change.

I think Bram wouldn't be adverse to accepting a new subsystem for
Indic scripts if someone (probably a programmer from the Indian
subcontinent) could develop it and show that it is indeed usable to
let Vim handle the family of Brahmi-derived scripts (including of
course devanāgari but not limited to it); but no one so far has
responded to the challenge. If you are able and willing, or if you
know someone who is, feel free to try.

Best regards,
Tony.

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