nanogui: query about Text rendering in Indian Language!
Subject:
Re: [nanogui] query about Text rendering in Indian Language!
From:
Kirankumar Mahajan ####@####.####
Date:
2 Jun 2006 09:12:46 +0100
Message-Id: <1149236778.3401.30.camel@kirankumar>
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 18:20 -0600, Greg Haerr wrote:
> : I want to localize Microwindows - Nano-X to render Text in Indian
> : Language like say Devnagri. So I want know is that how I can do it?
>
> Language isn't as much the issue as the character set. Have you
> tried using a TTF font that displays characters used in India?
yes i have a TTF font to display characters in Indian language.
This font works on windows and linux.
I tried it but cant succeed!
I want to know exactly that if I have my font and I want to use it with
Nano-X, how can I use it, means how to add that font?
what is the procedure?
> What other special aspects are required to display Indian text?
> (right to left display, special characters, unusual encoding, etc)
No special aspects are required : Left to right writing as english, no
special characters, encoding same as ASCII; only english glyphs are
replaced by some Indian glyphs.
thanks,
regards,
Kirankumar
