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authorRich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>2006-10-25 13:40:27 +0000
committerRich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>2006-10-25 13:40:27 +0000
commit6be66c1e482147c62af3d62be9a5ce73fb9ed5cf (patch)
treeb14d5acc7d2706b21abd199c53528bef8306281c
parent734da46346f62d0af0feed2ffd74c47e06de7157 (diff)
additional indic notes in readme
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@@ -64,7 +64,11 @@ Script support:
- Indic scripts are _almost_ supported by the UCF font system alone,
but need some minor additional support for reordering. This will be
- implemented in the near future, if all goes well.
+ implemented in the near future, if all goes well. However, some
+ scripts (at least Kannada and Malayalam) need revisions to the
+ wcwidth definitions in order to have any hope of correct display,
+ due to characters with extremely wide glyphs with comparable
+ complexity (in vertical stroke count) to ideographic characters.
- RTL/bidi scripts will not render properly. I personally don't believe
there is any sane way to render them properly at the terminal level,