From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs support for Indic scripts -- First National Indic-Font Workshop March 2003 Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 07:23:20 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87brzgeovv.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1050233198 13215 80.91.224.249 (13 Apr 2003 11:26:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:26:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 13 13:26:37 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 194fd7-0003R0-00 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 13:26:37 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 194fdy-0006Qu-00 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 13:27:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 194fd5-0006gr-02 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 07:26:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 194fcq-0006fo-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 07:26:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 194fco-0006f3-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 07:26:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 194fZw-0006DT-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 07:23:20 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 194fZw-0006KW-00; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 07:23:20 -0400 Original-To: Alex Schroeder In-reply-to: <87brzgeovv.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Alex Schroeder on Tue, 08 Apr 2003 22:05:24 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:13196 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13196 I've recently joined a mailing list with lots of people from South Asia on it. What is the general direction of Emacs support for these South Asian languages when it comes to fonts and and input methods? The most useful thing you can do on this list is not specifically about Emacs. Rather, it is to steer the list towards solutions that respect users' freedom, rather than solutions that don't. For instance, raising issues of freedom when others discuss an issue without regard to freedom as a goal. Related to that, you can encourage use of the term "free software" rather than "open source". Encouraging work that works with Emacs is also useful, of course; Handa can probably tell you what would be useful. But the other two are more important, I think.