From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Re: Inserting =?utf-8?Q?=E0=AF=87?= and =?utf-8?B?4K6V4K+N?= =?utf-8?B?4K63?= without the dotted circle Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 19:54:19 +0200 Message-ID: <83wptploz8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83k2prm1th.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447178167 29135 80.91.229.3 (10 Nov 2015 17:56:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 17:56:07 +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 Nov 10 18:55:59 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwD9A-0006le-PJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 18:55:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34613 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwD9A-0006gH-F4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 12:55:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55344) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwD8w-0006fg-5G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 12:55:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwD8k-0004rj-2Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 12:55:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:64254) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwD8j-0004qN-P5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 12:55:29 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NXM00I001LDLM00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 19:54:22 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NXM00IHO1QHHS40@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2015 19:54:17 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108023 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 09:37:53 +0530 > From: Shakthi Kannan > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org >=20 > In GNU Emacs, I am able to enter =E0=AE=B8=E0=AF=8D + =E0=AE=B0= =E0=AF=80 in a file. But, if I open the > same file in Gedit or in the browser (Chromium), it gets rendered o= r > composed correctly as =E0=AE=B8=E0=AF=8D=E0=AE=B0=E0=AF=80. I don't= see this character in the Ubuntu > Monospace font that I use in Gedit and the browser. (FWIW, this renders correctly on my system, but it isn't Ubuntu, and the font is Latha.) > Should I create a new glyph for =E0=AE=B8=E0=AF=8D=E0=AE=B0=E0=AF= =80 in the font, and add its unicode > number to the table in tamil-composable-pattern, or, can this > composition be made possible in GNU Emacs? My recommendation would be rather to find a font that has good coverage of the Tamil script, and then customize your default fontset to tell Emacs to use that font for Tamil characters. See fontset.el for many examples of how this can be done.