Re: Help with Tamil (Indic) font (Emacs from bzr)

[Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at>]

On Wed, Jan 16 2013, Jambunathan K wrote:

> The attached screenshot shows the difference in behaviour between Emacs
> launched from Bzr (trunk) and Emacs23 that is distributed with Debian
> itself.  The character that is shown is the one you get by typing "ki"
> in tamil-itrans.
>
> You will note following differences:
>
> 1. Emacs23 uses Lohit font while EmacsBzr picks up gnu-unifont.
> 2. Emacs23 "composes" the glyphs correctly while EmacsBzr messes up the
>    display.


Please take a look at

src/config.h

and check that these lines

    /* Define to 1 if using libm17n-flt. */
    #define HAVE_M17N_FLT 1

    /* Define to 1 if using libotf. */
    #define HAVE_LIBOTF 1

are present.  If not see 

* Complex Text Layout support libraries

in the INSTALL file in the emacs top-level directory.  Given that this
works in your distro's emacs 23 you should already have the necessary
libraries, but perhaps they are too old or configure can't find them
(config.log should give a clue).

Wolfgang