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: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 17:31:37 +0300 Message-ID: <83ftzhj9yu.fsf@gnu.org> References: 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 1534257006 27415 195.159.176.226 (14 Aug 2018 14:30:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 14:30:06 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 14 16:30:01 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 1fpaKe-0006xk-Rr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2018 16:30:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44589 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fpaMl-0000EZ-0B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2018 10:32:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45408) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fpaM7-0000EC-Su for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2018 10:31:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fpaM3-0007zG-Ub for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2018 10:31:31 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:43558) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fpaM3-0007zC-OG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2018 10:31:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1105 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fpaM3-0001QE-7O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2018 10:31:27 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Rusi on Mon, 13 Aug 2018 21:49:54 -0700 (PDT)) 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:117652 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 21:49:54 -0700 (PDT) > From: Rusi > 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.