Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!hsdndev!spdcc!tauxersvilli!alphalpha!nazgul From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: foreign languages Message-ID: <1990Dec9.043842.5254@alphalpha.com> Date: 9 Dec 90 04:38:42 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: asi Lines: 33 In article mleisher@nmsu.edu (Mark Leisher) writes: >No FREE and/or PD Urdu fonts were to be found. I am currently working >with another student in an attempt to develop a Nastaliq word >processor, but it will be some time before we resolve some of the font >issues. My guess is that Arabic based fonts for X11 will be difficult >to find. There are more than a dozen Arabic fonts available on the Mac, although I've only seen one PD set. These fonts can be converted to X fonts with relative ease (there's a program floating around the net that does this, let me know if you want a copy). Getting legal permission to do might be a problem though. (Well, if you want to get technical, you don't *need* permission, but...). >I am also working on some possibilities for Vietnamese, Thai, Tamil, >and Devanagari fonts for X11, but these are unsure prospects. Again, the Mac is probably a good place to start, if you don't care about PD availability. Even once you've got the fonts, it's not clear where to go from there. R5 will help a lot, but the I18N support there seems to be primarily oriented towards far-eastern languages. The multi- directional support looks to be weak. -kee -- Alphalpha Software, Inc. | motif-request@alphalpha.com nazgul@alphalpha.com |----------------------------------- 617/646-7703 (voice/fax) | Proline BBS: 617/641-3722 I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.