From 6be66c1e482147c62af3d62be9a5ce73fb9ed5cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rich Felker Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:40:27 +0000 Subject: additional indic notes in readme --- README | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 9db9926..3a8d0d6 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -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, -- cgit v1.2.3