Special Letters?

Gora Mohanty gora at sarai.net
Mon Jul 21 21:18:43 CEST 2008


On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:40:11 +1000
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <raster at openmoko.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:18:37 +0200 Ole Holm Frandsen <froksen at gmail.com>
> babbled:
> 
> > Sounds great that it will be possible to create better support for  
> > Danish and other "non-english" languages. Does anyone know when the  
> > SVN build might become "stabile"?
> > But there is no way at the moment du fix this issue?
[...]
> nb - for asian languages (traditional or simplified chinese by zuhin or pinyin,
> you will need ALSO an input method handler like uim, scim, kinput etc. etc.).
[...]

This sounds great. What is the level of OpenType support? Are complex text
layout (CTL) languages like Indian languages, and Thai supported? Is this
true of just the FreeRunner, or also of the Neo 1973?

Input methods can be handled. Even xkb can be coerced into providing basic
support for most non-English languages.

Regards,
Gora




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