From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Display of Lao script Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2017 00:26:52 +0900 Message-ID: <87vain77ib.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874lq8di4w.fsf@gmx.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1509982066 6628 195.159.176.226 (6 Nov 2017 15:27:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 15:27:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Berman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 06 16:27:42 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eBjJL-0001Sg-Fy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Nov 2017 16:27:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48685 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eBjJS-0006AZ-RB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Nov 2017 10:27:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54327) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eBjIm-00066i-P1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Nov 2017 10:27:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eBjIl-0007wD-SA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Nov 2017 10:27:04 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40808) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eBjIf-0007uh-TQ; Mon, 06 Nov 2017 10:26:57 -0500 Original-Received: from fl1-119-240-91-176.iba.mesh.ad.jp ([119.240.91.176]:40900 helo=shatin) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eBjIf-0007gX-Db; Mon, 06 Nov 2017 10:26:57 -0500 Original-Received: from handa by shatin with local (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eBjIa-0001TJ-8Q; Tue, 07 Nov 2017 00:26:52 +0900 In-Reply-To: <874lq8di4w.fsf@gmx.net> (message from Stephen Berman on Sun, 05 Nov 2017 13:28:31 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:219949 Archived-At: In article <874lq8di4w.fsf@gmx.net>, Stephen Berman writes: > > Could you please try the attached LAOO-OTF.flt with all other LAOO-* > > staying on the same directory (e.g. /usr/share/m17n)? > With this file plus the others, all the composed characters in the Lao > example are now displayed correctly. Thanks for fixing the problem. Thank you for confirming that. I am going to commit the attached change to etc/PROBLEMS. Is the branch "emacs-26" ok? --- K. Handa handa@gnu.org diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index e5611b0..1ee54e6 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -830,6 +830,36 @@ index 45cc554..0cc5e76 100644 If you can't modify that file directly, copy it to the directory ~/.m17n.d/ (create it if it doesn't exist), and apply the patch. +** Emacs running on GNU/Linux system with the m17n library Ver.1.7.1 or the +earlier version has a problem with rendering Lao script with OpenType font. + +The problem can be fixed by installing the newer version of the m17n +library (if any), or by following this procedure: + +1. Locate the file LAOO-OTF.flt installed on your system as part of the +m17n library. Usually it is under the directory /usr/share/m17n. + +2. Apply the following patch to LAOO-OTF.flt + +------------------------------------------------------------ +diff --git a/FLT/LAOO-OTF.flt b/FLT/LAOO-OTF.flt +index 5504171..431adf8 100644 +--- a/FLT/LAOO-OTF.flt ++++ b/FLT/LAOO-OTF.flt +@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ + ;; See the end for copying conditions. + + (font layouter laoo-otf nil +- (font (nil phetsarath\ ot unicode-bmp))) ++ (font (nil nil unicode-bmp :otf=lao\ ))) + + ;;;
  • LAOO-OTF.flt + +------------------------------------------------------------ + +If you can't modify that file directly, copy it to the directory +~/.m17n.d/ (create it if it doesn't exist), and apply the patch. + * Internationalization problems ** M-{ does not work on a Spanish PC keyboard.