From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get the concated characters in Indic languages like Gujarati/Hindi? Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 18:10:01 +0300 Message-ID: <8336vfk6nq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83ftzhj9yu.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1534345725 21726 195.159.176.226 (15 Aug 2018 15:08:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 15:08:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 15 17:08:41 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fpxPc-0005Vq-6s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 17:08:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50098 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fpxRi-0002za-Qt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 11:10:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47035) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fpxRF-0002zU-GI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 11:10:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fpxR5-0004fc-HH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 11:10:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39105) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fpxR3-0004eO-Bl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 11:10:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3362 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fpxQz-0001Bx-FP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 11:10:05 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Kaushal Modi on Tue, 14 Aug 2018 11:20:56 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117661 Archived-At: > From: Kaushal Modi > Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 11:20:56 -0400 > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > It does not seem to be a font issue. The default font picked up by Emacs is Lohit Gujarati. See this image[0]. > The same "નમસ્તે" string is rendering incorrectly in the Emacs buffer, while shows up as expected in > LibreOffice 5.2.5.1 when using the same font. FWIW, it's rendered correctly here (with a different font), so it is not entirely an Emacs issue, either. > How do I specify the font to be used for specific glyphs (like only the the Gujarati glyph Unicodes)? With set-fontset-font. > I can try > different fonts. But I expect the result to be the same in Emacs. That sample Gujarati string renders fine in > LibreOffice for few Gujarati fonts I had at hand. Then perhaps try upgrading your m17n-db, libm17n-flt and libotf libraries, they are the text-shaping engine Emacs uses on GNU/Linux.