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Re: Incorrect devanagari rendering on Linux
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Richard M Stallman |
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Re: Incorrect devanagari rendering on Linux |
Date: |
Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:10:49 -0500 |
but on my x86-64
Debian Linux box, it doesn't work correctly.
Please don't call it "Debian Linux". You're talking about a version
of the GNU system, used with Linux as the kernel. To call the whole
thing just "Linux" is to give the credit for our work to someone else
who started later and did less. That's being unfair to us.
See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html and
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html, plus
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/the-gnu-project.html for historical background.
The Linux rendering looks like
Linux doesn't do rendering. That is not part of its job.
The Linux build is built using the following libraries
This build has nothing to do with Linux either.
(Some of the libraries in it are developed by the GNU Project.)
The win32 build works correctly on my windows xp machine
In hacker terminology, calling something a "win" is a form of praise.
If you wish to praise Microsoft Windows, you're free to do so; but if you
don't, then you might want to think twice about using the term "win32".
Re: Incorrect devanagari rendering on Linux,
Richard M Stallman <=