Locales for Indic languages

Owen Taylor otaylor at redhat.com
Thu Oct 14 09:56:25 PDT 2004


On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 09:36 -0700, Ienup Sung wrote:
> ] Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:25:48 +0200
> ] From: Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org>
> ] Subject: Re: Locales for Indic languages
> ] 
> ] Leon Ho wrote:
> ] > Currently xorg does not covers all of the major locales in indic. They
> ] > are quite important for Indian users as those are major languages in
> ] > India. Is it possible to add Bengali, Gujarati and Punjabi into cvs?
> ] > 
> ] > The bug and patch are in:
> ] > http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=860
> ] 
> ] Maybe Sun i18n staff should have a look at that... they have working
> ] Indic support in Solaris (even CTL support for XLFD-based fonts) ...
> 
> It is actually quite more than update on the locale.dir and the locale.alias
> files unfortunately...

I think this is irrelevant for the purposes of this bug report. All the
Xlib and CTL apparatus isn't needed for Indic support when using 
Pango/Qt/etc.

Making XSetLocaleModifiers() work without complaining seems like a
worthwhile thing to me.

Regards,
						Owen

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