From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: alephnull@airtelbroadband.in (Alok G. Singh) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Internationalization - Devanagari Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:31:56 +0530 Organization: Home Message-ID: <87abqqz74r.fsf@klein.localdomain> References: <8a2141c0710070612u5d1905ebgb9c502e47918d102@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: alephnull@hcoop.net NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1192077023 24507 80.91.229.12 (11 Oct 2007 04:30:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:30:23 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 11 06:30:20 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ifpgh-0002PM-MT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:30:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ifpgb-0002U6-OS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:30:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IfpgY-0002Qu-3j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:30:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IfpgW-0002Ov-KL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:30:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IfpgW-0002Op-H8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:30:08 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IfpgW-0001SW-6l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:30:08 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IfpgQ-0001Jg-4D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:30:02 +0000 Original-Received: from 122.167.179.31 ([122.167.179.31]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:30:02 +0000 Original-Received: from alephnull by 122.167.179.31 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:30:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 122.167.179.31 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:raEphDfLlkYBNuRiSobevhR7GIo= X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:80578 Archived-At: On 7 Oct 2007, girish@hri.res.in wrote: > Maybe I should spend some more time with the Info pages on > internationalization. But it would be nice if somebody explains. The only workable combination of Indic scripts and Emacs that I managed is CDAC fonts with Emacs22 (at least). There seems to some issue with the font encodings of the ttf Indic fonts generally distributed. See emacswiki.org [1] for some details. The information might be dated but should still work. Also the thread on linux-delhi [2] might be useful. Footnotes: [1] http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/SupportHindi [2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi/15841 -- Alok //GO.SYSIN DD *, DOODAH, DOODAH