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comment -*- mode: text; tab-width:2; indent-tabs-mode:nil -*-
mlterm indic support
=== Unicode font version
Build mlterm with harfbuzz library and start it with -otl option since mlterm-3.6.2.
1) Build
$ ./configure ...
OpenType Layout : yes (harfbuzz)
$ make; sudo make install
2) Configuation
~/.mlterm/aafont (for xft or cairo) or
~/.mlterm/font (for win32gdi, framebuffer and quartx)
ISO10646_UCS4_1 = <TrueType font including indic glyphs>
("U+900-d7f = <TrueType font including indic glyphs>" is also avaialbe.)
~/.mlterm/main
#use_ctl = true # enabled by default
use_ot_layout = true
#type_engine = cairo # cairo is the default value. xft is also available.
=== ISCII font version (Not available on MacOSX/Cocoa)
Following is a instruction of setting up mlterm indic support.
* Installation
$ ./configure --enable-ind (--enable-anti-alias) (--with-gui=fb)
$ make
$ make install
You can download mlterm for win32gdi which supports indic scripts from
http://mlterm.sourceforge.net/bin.html
If you build mlterm without --enable-anti-alias, install xfstt in advance
to specify true type fonts by XLFD.
http://mlterm.sourceforge.net/BNDR0ntt.pcf (for bengali) and
http://mlterm.sourceforge.net/DVYG0ntt.pcf (for hindi) are available instead.
If you try bengali or assamese with --type=xft or --type=cairo option,
execute following steps or rebuild fontconfig with
http://mlterm.sourceforge.net/fontconfig-2.8.0-fix4indic.patch
$ cd xwindow/libtype
$ make libfc_wrapper.la
(You may need to change <freetype.h> in fc_wrapper.c according to your environment.)
$ make install_fc_wrapper
$ chmod 755 (INSTALLED DIRECTORY)/bin/mlterm
Then, install indic fonts to your system and setup ~/.mlterm/font,
~/.mlterm/aafont or ~/.mlterm/font-fb. (See font.indic, aafont, font.win32
and font-fb in https://github.com/arakiken/mlterm/blob/master/etc/)
Note that mlterm doesn't support modern OpenType fonts but supports
following old ISCII fonts.
Asdr0ntt.TTF for assamese (AS\-TTDurga)
DVYG0ntt.ttf for devanagari (DV\-TTYogesh)
DVSR0ntt.ttf for devanagari (DV\-TTSurekh)
GJAV0ntt.ttf for gujarati (GJ\-TTAvantika)
MLKR0ntt.ttf for malayalam (ML\-TTKarthika)
ORSR0ntt.ttf for oriya (OR\-TTSarala)
PNAM0ntt.ttf for pubjabi (PN\-TTAmar)
BNDR0ntt.ttf for bengali (BN\-TTDurga)
KNUM0ntt.ttf for kannada (KN\-TTUma)
TLHM0ntt.ttf for telugu (TL\-TTHemalatha)
TMVL0ntt.ttf for tamil (TM\-TTValluvar)
* Usage
$ mlterm -E utf8 -w 16 --im=kbd:isciihindi --lsp 6 -C (--type=xft)
o -E option specifies character encoding.
"utf8" or "isciixxx"(like "isciihindi") are available.
o -w [font size] specifies font size you want to use. (optional)
o --im option specifies input method to be used. For ISCII use kbd input
method.
o --lsp [line space size] specifies pixels of line space according to appearance of
a selected font. (optional)
o -C enables rendering indic scripts.
o --type=xft enables xft. --type=cairo is also available. (optional)
This option is not necessary on win32gdi or framebuffer.
o If console applications you use don't support combining characters, try -m=false.
o Don't specify -bi option which disables rendering indic scripts.
Pressing the key defined as IM_HOTKEY in ~/.mlterm/key lets you use ISCII
inputting.
IM_HOTKEY switches the loop Inscript => Phonetic => US ASCII => Inscript ...
If you try indic scripts except devanagari, start mlterm with LD_PRELOAD as follows.
$ sudo chmod 755 (INSTALLED DIRECTORY)/bin/mlterm
$ LD_PRELOAD=(INSTALLED DIRECTORY)/lib/mlterm/libfc_wrapper.so mlterm ...
* Notice
o Tamil is not supported.
o We are not a native speaker and mlterm indic support itself may be still
unstable.
So if you find something strange or wrong about it, please report it without
reservation to Mlterm-dev-en.
(https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mlterm-dev-en)
* Other resources
(Mlterm with Indic support)
https://gist.github.com/bdsatish/ab5a1b17b53c633a3edc