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* Internationalization - Devanagari
@ 2007-10-07 13:12 Girish Kulkarni
  2007-10-11  3:01 ` Alok G. Singh
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Girish Kulkarni @ 2007-10-07 13:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel

(I had posted this on gnu.emacs.help about a week ago but Eli
Zaretskii suggested this would be the proper place.)

Using GNU Emacs 22.1.1 on Ubuntu 7.04. I have a limited understanding
of fonts related issues in Linux, and three possibly naive questions:

 0. I installed the Intlfonts distribution today, to try out the
Devanagari font support in Emacs. The installation was okay, and I
also added the installation directory to the font path. The README
file that came with the distribution then says something like, "The
file Emacs.ap contains X resource setting of fontsets for various size
fonts (14, 16, 18, and 24 dots)." Could somebody explain this to me?

 1. I tried entering some Devanagari characters in an empty buffer
using a Devanagari ITRANS keyboard and found that now Emacs could
render them, but not quite correctly -- the ligatures do not form at
all. Devanagari ligatures is usually a hard issue everywhere; how has
Emacs solved it?

 2. Although my Emacs could render these few Devanagari characters
that I entered, it only showed  empty boxes in the HELLO file. Why did
this happen?

Maybe I should spend some more time with the Info pages on
internationalization. But it would be nice if somebody explains.

-- 
Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com

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2007-10-07 13:12 Internationalization - Devanagari Girish Kulkarni
2007-10-11  3:01 ` Alok G. Singh
2007-10-12  2:46   ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-12 18:20     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-10-12 19:03       ` David Kastrup
2007-10-13  6:41       ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-12  8:42   ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-10-12 11:20     ` Kenichi Handa

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