On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 2:06 PM Rudra Banerjee <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for your reply. I would have love to make my hand dirty, except I have > minimal idea of how the fonts are displayed. Like, I thought, it should not > be a problem with encode=utf-8, but clearly ots not. As you said, probably > due to fixed cell grid of vim. > Being said that, I have started looking at how gedit has solved the problem. > But most probably, they don't use fixed cell grid as vim/gvim. > Anywhere to start? Can you give me any suggestions? > Knowing as little as I do about Indic writing, I would have a look at some encyclopædic sources describing what they are and how they are displayed, but maybe you can skip that, I don't know. I would also have a look at which Unicode codepoints are available for Indic scripts (see the third column of http://www.unicode.org/charts/ ) and I might perhaps also have a look at src/arabic.c to see how Nadim Shaikli solved the problem of rendering one single codepoint by one of several glyphs depending on context — the latter might or might not give inspiration to someone having (or wishing) to tackle the problem of Indic scripts. Further than that, you're probably better placed than I am to determine how to go about, considering that Mechelynck is a Belgian family name (i.e. from a country where everything used to be written in Latin script, though Greek, Cyrillic and Maghreb Arabic scripts have made an apparition in the latest decades) while Ban(n)erjee is an Indian one. ;-)
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