tlug: Forward: Linux for Non English

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

    YP>     I am looking for information about how to use Linux with
    YP> the Cambodian Characters.  Any suggestions will be
    YP> appreciated.

    YP> Yitong Phou

I don't know any way to do this at the console level.  Under X you may 
be able to use yudit (Gaspar Sinai's Unicode editor) if Cambodian
scripts are included in the available fonts.

I believe that Handa-san of ETL, the inventor of Mule, is currently
working on a "Khmer" environment for "Khmer" script(s), so you can
probably use Emacs 20.3 (or perhaps 20.4, the next release) for this
purpose.  If a display font is available, you would also be able to
use the `ps-print' facility of Emacs/Mule to get medium-quality
hardcopy based on the bitmap font.  High quality output would probably
depend on acquiring good Postscript or True-type fonts some other way
(I suspect there are no good free ones); you could then use
Ghostscript, Freetype, and VFlib in some combination to get good
display and hardcopy.

I am copying Handa-san, and hoping that he will be able to give you a
positive answer.

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