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: 24 Feb 2003 14:49:41 +0530 Organization: Free Software for the Free World Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87r89yox1u.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> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046078367 9833 80.91.224.249 (24 Feb 2003 09:19:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:19:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18nElg-0002YO-00 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:19:24 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18nF13-0002XN-00 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:35:18 +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 18nEke-0007Td-02 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 04:18:20 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18nEkL-0007T8-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 04:18:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18nEkJ-0007Sv-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 04:18:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [219.65.165.244] (helo=alpha) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18nEkH-0007SW-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 04:17:58 -0500 Original-Received: from rkrishnan by alpha with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18nEly-000083-00; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:49:42 +0530 Original-To: Kenichi Handa X-GnuPG-KeyID: 0x6A9F3C38 X-GnuPG-Fingerprint: CC18 3BF4 9D17 1DA7 E11E 67D3 1729 F586 6A9F 3C38 In-Reply-To: <200302240754.QAA25609@etlken.m17n.org> Original-Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-cc: kawabata@m17n.org Original-cc: gnu@vsnl.net 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:11901 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11901 || On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:54:45 +0900 (JST) || Kenichi Handa wrote: kh> I see. Apart from the correctness of that non-standard way, kh> if the Unicode standard requires that such a sequence should kh> be rendered correctly, Emacs should support it. Do you know kh> what Unicode requires? Perhaps, supporting ZWNJ is kh> necessary as well. I did some web search on this topic and found[1] that, those ZWJs were artifacts of convertions from ISCII to Unicode. It seem to me that consonant + halant + ZWJ == half consonent (valid for those 5 half consonants (chillaksharam)) should be supported. May be emacs-unicode hackers have something to say on this. [1] http://www.unicode.org/faq/indic.html#16 -- Ramakrishnan M (http://www.hackGNU.org/) Use Free Software -- Help stamp out Software Hoarding!