Re: [w32] display international HELLO

["Richard Wordingham" <richard.wordingham@ntlworld.com>]

Kenichi Handa wrote on Monday, November 19, 2007 2:35 AM

> The problem is that the current fixed
> composition is suitable only for a specific font (usually a
> fixed-width terminal font).  Even on Windows, I think
> there's a way to use BDF fonts distributed as intlfonts.  If
> you use those fonts on Windows, the rendering should be
> good.

I installed intlfonts 1.2.1 using the procedure given at 
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/faq5.html , save that I updated 
the directory names to those actually present, thus names ending in '.X', 
not '-X'.  When I selected the 16-point BDF fonts for Emacs 22.1, the Lao 
came out nicely except that the tone marks were not treated as combining 
marks.  Unfortunately, with Emacs 23.0.60.1 (+ bug fixes Jason Rumney 
mentioned earlier), I just got square boxes for the BDF fonts.  Do I need to 
define the fontset specially to allow it use a Lao-encoded font for Lao 
characters?  I tried

(set-fontset-font "fontset-bdf" 'lao 
'("-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-m-80-MuleLao-1" . "MuleLao-1"))

and several variations, but to no apparent avail.

Richard.