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From: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
To: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: rfrancoise@debian.org, 7005@debbugs.gnu.org, miles@gnu.org
Subject: bug#7005: 24.0.50; Devanagari rendering broken
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:34:02 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tl7bp86o2rp.fsf@m17n.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100909160424.GA16852@kytes> (message from Ramkumar Ramachandra on Thu, 9 Sep 2010 21:34:26 +0530)

In article <20100909160424.GA16852@kytes>, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

> Steps to reproduce:
> Open a file containing UTF-8 Devanagari script in Emacs. It is rendered
> incorrectly. For example, in the word "लिखने", The first and second
> rendered characters are swapped. Konsole (Qt) renders this correctly.

Emacs 23 and later shifted the support of Indic (and any
other complex scripts) to OpenType fonts.  And, on
GNU/Linux, you need libotf, m17n-db, and m17n-lib to make
Emacs render those scripts correctly by OTF.

> A page on the EmacsWiki suggests a workaround that works on Ubuntu
> though [1].

It's not a "workaround" but the right thing on GNU/Linux
systems.

---
Kenichi Handa
handa@m17n.org





  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-10  0:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-09 16:04 bug#7005: 24.0.50; Devanagari rendering broken Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-09-10  0:34 ` Kenichi Handa [this message]
2010-09-10  4:51   ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-09-10  5:34     ` Romain Francoise
2010-09-10  5:40       ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-09-10 11:46         ` Romain Francoise
2010-09-16 11:30     ` Kenichi Handa
2010-09-16 12:05       ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-09-16 12:21         ` Kenichi Handa
2010-09-17 17:00           ` Ramkumar Ramachandra

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