From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Girish Kulkarni" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Internationalization - Devanagari Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 18:42:11 +0530 Message-ID: <8a2141c0710070612u5d1905ebgb9c502e47918d102@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191782117 4351 80.91.229.12 (7 Oct 2007 18:35:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 18:35:17 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 07 20:35:14 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ieay8-0000jh-Ne for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:35:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ieay3-0007x3-MF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:35:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IeVvb-0005MB-QR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:12:15 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IeVvZ-0005LI-VO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:12:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IeVvZ-0005L3-Fx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:12:13 -0400 Original-Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.179]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IeVvY-0007Zo-JN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:12:12 -0400 Original-Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k34so1301296wah for ; Sun, 07 Oct 2007 06:12:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; bh=acpT0AasjhCn8uRSuyybGsmvPFPMq5x0Pz9tygNJRRg=; b=Ywlv1NjQipvIJC87m0VX44xie/eEVwPF1Mi0tEu5HW1Ktw60ZkvBYcQQ74aGSTKByaeZpZKUXyPw3s9xWy8fx0bCginKGB/rB2TMYu3oMnb+8xZ0eLkn6/VR5oM2BJbIEZHwVRYUxl3fnSXn26Jj+ZIq7TRtXmQ3NZBTY5m4wvk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; b=XMG6R8uXxnTjAWSoL+jTaAg114d6tjgWftUz4IRcRcbqlvnpoA7NinRUClHH2O3xNexqs40HJBfQ8iAiceDoW0sbi9v3NSWWe2H8c3P/LrhZEX3LzF82KlJOh/orjU5vSIT2IlbVsagI4XpkLujaehogoCLs9F/aVHDz8+Js3fM= Original-Received: by 10.114.95.1 with SMTP id s1mr9708300wab.1191762731073; Sun, 07 Oct 2007 06:12:11 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.114.234.13 with HTTP; Sun, 7 Oct 2007 06:12:11 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: a955f91ba13bd052 X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:33:01 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:80388 Archived-At: (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