[Fontconfig] Thaana / Divehi support (was Font related bug, unresolved)

[Stefan Baums]

> Are the freely distributable Thaana fonts available?

There is the Thaana Unicode Akeh font:

   http://www.mitf.net/index.php/projects/thaana/font-unicode.html

which is released under the GNU Free Documentation License.

> The question of X keyboard maps is a messy one, and I'm not
> really in a position to help you here.

The M17n library

   http://www.m17n.org/

includes a Thaana input method.  I tried it through the M17n-SCIM
bridge on Ubuntu 5.04, and it seems to work very well.

Stefan

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Stefan Baums
Asian Languages and Literature
University of Washington