From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Display of Lao script
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 01:14:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874lqyvg78.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
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I had Emacs (built from current master) on a system on which the m17n
and otf libraries were not installed; after installing these libraries I
rebuilt Emacs and noticed that the example of Lao script in the HELLO
file looks different than it does without these libraries. Here's a
screen shot from the Emacs built without these libraries:
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And here's one with from the Emacs built with these libraries:
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Is this difference expected? I'm not familiar with the Lao script, so I
don't know if one of the displays is wrong, though this quote from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lao_alphabet seems to suggest that either
way is possible: "Vowels can be written above, below, in front of, or
behind consonants, with some vowel combinations written before, over and
after." This is m17n-lib-1.7.0 and libotf-0.9.13 from
http://www.nongnu.org/m17n/, which are AFAIK the latest released
versions (there's a patch for Bengali in etc/PROBLEMS, but I don't know
of any problem report about Lao). (Regardless if what's correct, my
aesthetic impression is that the first display, without m17n and libotf,
looks better; however, I do know that the Arabic example in HELLO is
correctly displayed only with these libraries).
Steve Berman
next reply other threads:[~2017-10-16 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-16 23:14 Stephen Berman [this message]
2017-10-17 16:40 ` Display of Lao script Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-20 11:48 ` Stephen Berman
2017-10-22 3:37 ` handa
2017-10-22 11:13 ` Stephen Berman
2017-10-24 9:14 ` handa
2017-10-24 10:01 ` Stephen Berman
2017-10-24 12:04 ` handa
2017-10-24 12:29 ` Stephen Berman
2017-10-24 22:48 ` handa
2017-11-05 5:26 ` handa
2017-11-05 12:28 ` Stephen Berman
2017-11-06 15:26 ` handa
2017-11-06 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-07 11:56 ` handa
2017-10-20 13:11 ` Kaushal Modi
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