Re: Inserting ே and க்ஷ without the dotted circle

[Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>]

Shakthi Kannan <shakthimaan@gmail.com> writes:
> In Gedit and Chromium it is Ubuntu Monospace. In Emacs, "M-x
> describe-font" tells me the following:
>
>   -unknown-Ubuntu Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-17-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1
>
> When I type "C-u C-x =" on the Tamil character, the chosen font is shown as:
>
>   xft:-unknown-Lohit Tamil
> Classical-normal-normal-normal-*-17-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1
>
> I have all the required characters that I need in this classical font.
> "Sri" is the last one that I need.

Have you tried the classical font in gedit, and ubuntu mono in emacs, in
order to determine if the problem is with the font or with emacs?
When you move the cursor over it, does it become one large cursor
covering the whole thing (even though it is rendered incorrectly), or
does the cursor move over each piece of it individually?

And just to be clear is this in the GUI emacs or a terminal?

These are not single characters, they're composed glyphs, and it's not
clear to me what aspects of the behavior the font is responsible for and
what the rendering engine is responsible for.

If you do have to edit the font, I think it won't be as simple as adding
a character with a unicode codepoint.