Re: Bengali Rendering in Emacs 23

[Abu Zaher <zaher14@gmail.com>]

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On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Jason Rumney <jasonrumney@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Aug 18, 1:32 am, Abu Zaher <zahe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > eg কো is being rendered as ক‍ো
>
> Firefox on Windows XP shows both those the same, so I think this must
> be a common rendering problem. Emacs on Windows on the other hand
> displays them differently (but I can't tell if it is correct ).
>
> I would guess that the problem is with libotf or libm17n, have you
> tried looking for updated versions of those libraries? If you are
> relying on the version your GNU/Linux distribution provides it may be
> too old, you probably need to build those libraries yourself from an
> up to date source to get proper support for many Indic scripts.  Also,
> your font may be lacking the information required to compose it
> correctly, or have the information in a format that libotf cannot
> recognize, so try different fonts.


Well (gedit) gnome shows they glyphs correctly with pango, so I think there
is no problem with these fonts. But not sure about the libs, I'll try to
compile them and let you guys know.


> On Windows I have the font
> "Vrinda", which I think was from a source of Free fonts, but Windows
> uses a different OTF engine, so there is no guarantee that will work
> with libotf.
>



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