Since gnome-terminal & its emulators like guake uses vtk which do not provide complex utf-8 rendering, Indic Language support is poor in them.
~Akhil On 28 Nov 2013 01:56, "അഖിൽ കൃഷ്ണൻ എസ്." <akhilkrishn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Konsole of KDE & its frameworks like yakuake works well on Indic > Languages. Me using it for Malayalam -ml_IN which is a complex indic script. > On 28 Nov 2013 01:46, "ken" <geb...@mousecar.com> wrote: > >> On 11/27/2013 09:21 AM m...@mylug.org wrote: >> >>> I am using mutt as my mail reader and am quite happy with it. I generally >>> use terminator as my terminal of choice. What I find lacking is that none >>> the terminals display the indic characters. >>> >>> Searching I found that mlterm has good support for Asian languages and >>> installed it. Unfortunately the debian version is compiled without indic >>> support. I could not find the reason for it. >>> >>> In view of this, can anyone suggest a good terminal which is capable of >>> displaying indic characters properly? >>> >>> I am using debian testing with some packages from sid via apt pinning. >>> >>> -- >>> Sridhar >>> >> >> Yeah, you need to have utf8 support and then too Indic fonts installed. >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a >> subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org >> Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5296530d.6010...@mousecar.com >> >>
