[w1ntermute]

> the problem is that complex Indic languages are NOT a priority for either Gnome or KDE

I think you have the wrong attitude with regards to this matter. In an open source project, the priorities are what the developers (or the people paying them) are interested in. If Indians want things to be changed wrt localization support in FLOSS, then they must take the initiative to do it themselves.

Do you think it was easy for the Chinese to get ~50,000 characters into Unicode? It made the font tables absolutely enormous, and so UTF-8 is much more verbose than ASCII. But they knew they wanted Chinese language support, and they did the work to get it.

So if there is sufficient interest from sufficiently influential people, things can be done very easily in open source.

[sandGorgon]

My comment was not meant to change the direction of anything or to disparage the efforts of a community which helps me earn a living.

It was simply to illustrate that linux is not yet an alternative to piracy.