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* Display of Lao script
@ 2017-10-16 23:14 Stephen Berman
  2017-10-17 16:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
  2017-10-20 13:11 ` Kaushal Modi
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 16+ messages in thread
From: Stephen Berman @ 2017-10-16 23:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

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I had Emacs (built from current master) on a system on which the m17n
and otf libraries were not installed; after installing these libraries I
rebuilt Emacs and noticed that the example of Lao script in the HELLO
file looks different than it does without these libraries.  Here's a
screen shot from the Emacs built without these libraries:


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And here's one with from the Emacs built with these libraries:


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Is this difference expected?  I'm not familiar with the Lao script, so I
don't know if one of the displays is wrong, though this quote from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lao_alphabet seems to suggest that either
way is possible: "Vowels can be written above, below, in front of, or
behind consonants, with some vowel combinations written before, over and
after."  This is m17n-lib-1.7.0 and libotf-0.9.13 from
http://www.nongnu.org/m17n/, which are AFAIK the latest released
versions (there's a patch for Bengali in etc/PROBLEMS, but I don't know
of any problem report about Lao).  (Regardless if what's correct, my
aesthetic impression is that the first display, without m17n and libotf,
looks better; however, I do know that the Arabic example in HELLO is
correctly displayed only with these libraries).

Steve Berman

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2017-10-16 23:14 Display of Lao script Stephen Berman
2017-10-17 16:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-20 11:48   ` Stephen Berman
2017-10-22  3:37     ` handa
2017-10-22 11:13       ` Stephen Berman
2017-10-24  9:14         ` handa
2017-10-24 10:01           ` Stephen Berman
2017-10-24 12:04             ` handa
2017-10-24 12:29               ` Stephen Berman
2017-10-24 22:48                 ` handa
2017-11-05  5:26                   ` handa
2017-11-05 12:28                     ` Stephen Berman
2017-11-06 15:26                       ` handa
2017-11-06 16:11                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-07 11:56                           ` handa
2017-10-20 13:11 ` Kaushal Modi

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