Re: Uniform font size for English and Tamil text inside GNU Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 23:40:27 +0530
> From: Shakthi Kannan <shakthimaan@gmail.com>
> 
> I create UTF-8 files in GNU Emacs 24.3.1 with both English and Tamil
> (native language) text. An example is illustrated below:
> 
>   http://shakthimaan.com/dump/emacs-english-tamil.png
> 
> I see that the Tamil font size is very small when compared to the
> English text.

Doesn't happen to me, I see them both in very similar size.

> I use the following in my emacs init scripts:
> 
>   (defun fontify-frame (frame)
>     (set-frame-parameter frame 'font "DejaVu Sans Mono"))

What happens if you don't do this customization?  Do you have another
font that supports Tamil?  (On my system, there's Latha.)

> Is there a way to get both the language font texts to be of the same
> size

You need to make sure you avoid bad fonts, I think.