From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alexandre Garreau Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Verticality and future of display engine and lines (bis) [Was: Re: RTL lines] Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 16:28:39 +0200 Message-ID: <6106788.36ZXLZ3XBm@galex-713.eu> References: <3519414.WYFCpekPd3@galex-713.eu> <545142685.SnQoWKrNAN@galex-713.eu> <83ilxhts53.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36694"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 28 16:29:47 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mg6Pa-0009Kp-A6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2021 16:29:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47214 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mg6PY-0004Bi-R8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2021 10:29:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58298) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mg6Od-00047L-V7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2021 10:28:47 -0400 Original-Received: from portable.galex-713.eu ([2a00:5884:8305::1]:47678 helo=galex-713.eu) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mg6Ob-0005On-6F; Thu, 28 Oct 2021 10:28:47 -0400 Original-Received: from gal by galex-713.eu with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mg6OW-0001PU-Fr; Thu, 28 Oct 2021 16:28:40 +0200 In-Reply-To: <83ilxhts53.fsf@gnu.org> X-BSFilter-Flag: No X-BSFilter-Probability: 0.501017 Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a00:5884:8305::1; envelope-from=galex-713@galex-713.eu; helo=galex-713.eu X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:134259 Archived-At: Le jeudi 28 octobre 2021, 11:28:40 CEST Eli Zaretskii a =C3=A9crit : > > From: Alexandre Garreau > > Cc: Eli Zaretskii > > Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 09:18:55 +0200 > >=20 > > =E2=80=9CVietnamese (Vietnamese: ti=E1=BA=BFng Vi=E1=BB=87t) is an Aust= roasiatic language=E2=80=9D > > from > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_language (which firefox > > displays just fine, screenshot attached). > >=20 > > For some reason, for me, within emacs, this displays bad: the e is > > oversmall, while using combining diacritics displays right: =E2=80=9Cti= e=CC=82=CC=81ng > > Vi=E1=BB=87t=E2=80=9D. > Your default font doesn't support Vietnamese; find a better font, if > you want Vietnamese text to be displayed without this ugliness. Still not a user problem, as one should not have to manually search and=20 gather fonts before to start reading/seeing/discovering a certain script. = =20 A such font should be installed by default. But of course I can conceive=20 this is not emacs=E2=80=99 job but rather, dunno, most probably X=E2=80=99s= one I guess=20 (more globally: debian=E2=80=99s one in my case).