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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:290627 Archived-At: [=E0=AE=B5=E0=AF=86=E0=AE=B3=E0=AF=8D=E0=AE=B3=E0=AE=BF =E0=AE=9C=E0=AF=82= =E0=AE=A9=E0=AF=8D 03, 2022] Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: =E0=A4=B8=E0=A4=AE=E0=A5=80=E0=A4=B0 =E0=A4=B8=E0=A4=BF=E0=A4=82= =E0=A4=B9 Sameer Singh >> Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2022 17:46:10 +0530 >> Cc: Werner LEMBERG , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Visuwesh >>=20 >> Great! I will send them in two different bug reports. > > Thanks. > >> I think we should also warn users that if they are trying to change the = tamil font in their init.el, they should use >> codepoints instead of the script name, >> in the (set-fontset-font) function, because if their font does not suppo= rt the supplement characters, they will >> once more be displayed as "tofu". > > [...] > > (Personally, I find it strange that a Tamil font doesn't support the > Supplement block, and even more strange that Google created a separate > font instead of extending an existing one. Perhaps this is because > the Tamil Supplement block is relatively new.) Probably because most of the characters added are historic, for a lack of a better word. I have never seen them used in practise and I doubt most Tamil speakers know about them either: maybe if you were old, you might have used it and/or heard about it [1]. Considering this, I don't think most font maintainers/creators would have the supplement characters in high priority list. Also, these characters were added in Unicode 12.0. [1] FWIW, even my mother did not know about it.