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gucharmap package

Unable to write all type of texts in bengali

Asked by kaustav

Binary package hint: gucharmap

In Bengali, we often have to write two letters together instead of one coming after the other. I could not find any provision for this.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Sep 27 17:46:55 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gucharmap
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gucharmap 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-22.65-generic
SourcePackage: gucharmap
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-22-generic i686

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This question was originally filed as bug #648796.

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kaustav (kkundu10) said : 		#1
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Mechanical snail (replicator-snail) said : 		#2

It is possible to do this; see explanation.

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Mechanical snail (replicator-snail) said : 		#3

The way Unicode does this is to follow the conceptual first letter with a combining character. The font will display a combined glyph.
See the chart at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0980.pdf for the official list of Bengali characters; ones with dotted circles will combine.

I tried a few combinations and they seem to work (Ubuntu Lucid); if they don't for you, please file a bug with the font rendering engine (Pango? I'm not sure).

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