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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to get the concated characters in Indic languages like Gujarati/Hindi?
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 17:31:37 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ftzhj9yu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca0d6f30-1d03-4db8-b313-69860b82d5a4@googlegroups.com> (message from Rusi on Mon, 13 Aug 2018 21:49:54 -0700 (PDT))

> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 21:49:54 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>
> Injection-Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 04:49:55 +0000
> 
> On Tuesday, August 14, 2018 at 4:03:18 AM UTC+5:30, Kaushal Modi wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I was browsing the etc/HELLO, and saw that "Namaste" in Gujarati is shown
> > as 4 separate characters instead of (for a lack of better way to express
> > this) 3.5 characters.
> > 
> > I see: "ન" (1), "મ" (1), "સ્" (1), "તે " (1 - I know that this is
> > technically not 1 char).
> > 
> > It should be seen as: "ન" (1), "મ" (1), "સ્તે " (1.5)
> > 
> > [And the same for Hindi नमस्ते too.]
> 
> [Not sure it constitutes an answer…]
> Had a similar issue with tamil the other day
> Fished around in the (ubuntu) repos for tamil fonts
> After installing something (dont remember what!) and restarting emacs the problem vanished/reduced

Yes, this is likely to be a problem with the required font not being
installed.



  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-14 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.5070.1534199595.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-08-14  4:49 ` How to get the concated characters in Indic languages like Gujarati/Hindi? Rusi
2018-08-14 14:31   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-08-14 15:20     ` Kaushal Modi
2018-08-14 16:22       ` Andy Moreton
2018-08-14 17:52         ` Kaushal Modi
2018-08-14 17:00       ` Kaushal Modi
2018-08-15 15:10       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-13 22:32 Kaushal Modi

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