From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gnu@vsnl.net (Ramakrishnan M) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Malayalam rendering Date: 25 Feb 2003 08:04:02 +0530 Organization: Free Software for the Free World Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <8765r9f5r9.fsf@vsnl.net> References: <874r6ukjqy.fsf@vsnl.net> <200302240053.JAA25073@etlken.m17n.org> <87isva4bmn.fsf@vsnl.net> <200302240545.OAA25500@etlken.m17n.org> <87smuecj1w.fsf@vsnl.net> <200302240754.QAA25609@etlken.m17n.org> <87r89yox1u.fsf@vsnl.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=euc-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046140422 26215 80.91.224.249 (25 Feb 2003 02:33:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 02:33:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kenichi Handa Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18nUua-0006oX-00 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 03:33:40 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18nVAK-0004Lx-00 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 03:49:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18nUu0-0000Vm-05 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 21:33:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18nUtg-0000R9-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 21:32:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18nUtA-0007zE-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 21:32:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [219.65.165.98] (helo=alpha) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18nUt9-0007t2-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 21:32:12 -0500 Original-Received: from rkrishnan by alpha with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18nUux-0000AR-00; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 08:04:03 +0530 Original-To: =?iso-2022-jp?b?GyRCQG5IKBsoQiAbJEJCQDBsGyhC?= ( Taichi KAWABATA ) X-GnuPG-KeyID: 0x6A9F3C38 X-GnuPG-Fingerprint: CC18 3BF4 9D17 1DA7 E11E 67D3 1729 F586 6A9F 3C38 In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 31 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-cc: Ramakrishnan M X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11928 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11928 || On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 01:33:35 +0900 || =C0=EE=C8=A8 =C2=C0=B0=EC ( Taichi KAWABATA ) wrote:= =20 =C0=EE=C2=C0> Hello,=20 =C0=EE=C2=C0> When I was back to home and read the mails, I was surprised = to see so =C0=EE=C2=C0> many mail exchanged... Yeah.. I am on vacation for a week and got some time to work on interesting stuff only now. So I thought this is the best time to see Malayalam implementation on Emacs. =C0=EE=C2=C0> It seems to me, as I've seen from the Table 9-1 of Unicode s= tandards, =C0=EE=C2=C0> consonant + halant + ZWJ is used to form the half form of the =C0=EE=C2=C0> consonants. Is it common to use these characters in Malayal= am? I =C0=EE=C2=C0> thought that the glyphs shown in Table 9-1 is only used in l= anguage =C0=EE=C2=C0> textbooks and not at the common usage.=20=20 Yes, the five half-consonents are very common in Malayalam. Without that the meaning of some words just change. i.e + has different meaning compared to for those 5 characters. =C0=EE=C2=C0> Anyway, I thinkg it is easy to support them if the appropria= te =C0=EE=C2=C0> corresponding glyphs are already prepared in indian-glyph. = I think it =C0=EE=C2=C0> is just add the new entries for them in mlm-char-glyph varia= ble, isn't =C0=EE=C2=C0> it? Yes. I think so. --=20 Ramakrishnan M (http://www.hackGNU.org/) Use Free Software -- Help stamp out Software Hoarding!