From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Malayalam rendering Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:45:24 +0900 (JST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200302240545.OAA25500@etlken.m17n.org> References: <874r6ukjqy.fsf@vsnl.net> <200302240053.JAA25073@etlken.m17n.org> <87isva4bmn.fsf@vsnl.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046065632 24031 80.91.224.249 (24 Feb 2003 05:47:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 05:47:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18nBSI-0006FT-00 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 06:47:10 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18nBhb-0000bt-00 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 07:03:00 +0100 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 18nBR8-0005fv-09 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 00:45:58 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18nBQm-0005dN-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 00:45:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18nBQl-0005c1-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 00:45:35 -0500 Original-Received: from tsukuba.m17n.org ([192.47.44.130]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18nBQk-0005Xa-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 00:45:34 -0500 Original-Received: from fs.m17n.org (fs.m17n.org [192.47.44.2])h1O5jPk09025; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:45:25 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from etlken.m17n.org (etlken.m17n.org [192.47.44.125]) h1O5jOR22804; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:45:24 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: (from handa@localhost) by etlken.m17n.org (8.8.8+Sun/3.7W-2001040620) id OAA25500; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:45:24 +0900 (JST) Original-To: gnu@vsnl.net In-reply-to: <87isva4bmn.fsf@vsnl.net> (gnu@vsnl.net) User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/21.2.92 (sparc-sun-solaris2.6) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) Original-cc: kawabata@m17n.org 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:11895 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11895 In article <87isva4bmn.fsf@vsnl.net>, gnu@vsnl.net (Ramakrishnan M) writes: kh> This screenshot contains many empty boxes. kh> http://www.hackGNU.org/emacs-mal/Screenshot-1.png kh> What are they? Is it a bug that is fixed by the above kh> change? > The above patch fixes some of the problems in that > screenshot. But that text as shown in that screenshot was > not written using Emacs. It was generated using some other > tools, I guess by someone else (It is the translation of > GNU GPL in Malayalam). There are problems in the generated > file. So I guess we don't have to worry. I will try to > write the same text natively in Emacs. As I found this file on the net: http://fsf.org.in/projects/malayalam-gpl/gpl-ml-unicode-pre.txt I checked the contents. Those empty boxes are ZWJ characters. But, it seems strange that we need so many ZWJ for Malayalam writing. --- Ken'ichi HANDA handa@m17n.org