From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Internationalization - Devanagari Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:20:42 +0900 Message-ID: References: <8a2141c0710070612u5d1905ebgb9c502e47918d102@mail.gmail.com> <87abqqz74r.fsf@klein.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1192188096 15271 80.91.229.12 (12 Oct 2007 11:21:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:21:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: alephnull@hcoop.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 12 13:21:24 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 1IgIa0-0005k4-ST for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:21:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IgIZu-0005x1-L7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:21:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IgIZq-0005wv-Cv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:21:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IgIZn-0005wP-VI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:21:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IgIZn-0005wM-Q4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:21:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.aist.go.jp ([150.29.246.133]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IgIZj-0007x0-64; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:21:03 -0400 Original-Received: from rqsmtp1.aist.go.jp (rqsmtp1.aist.go.jp [150.29.254.115]) by mx1.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id l9CBKrjL029042; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:20:53 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from smtp1.aist.go.jp by rqsmtp1.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id l9CBKrvM007772; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:20:53 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: by smtp1.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id l9CBKgui014886; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:20:42 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from handa by etlken.m17n.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IgIZO-0005Ij-Hq; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:20:42 +0900 In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:42:11 +0200) User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/23.0.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) 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:80706 Archived-At: In article , Eli Zaretskii writes: > > From: alephnull@airtelbroadband.in (Alok G. Singh) > > Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:31:56 +0530 > > > > On 7 Oct 2007, girish@hri.res.in wrote: > > > > > Maybe I should spend some more time with the Info pages on > > > internationalization. But it would be nice if somebody explains. > > > > The only workable combination of Indic scripts and Emacs that I > > managed is CDAC fonts with Emacs22 (at least). There seems to some > > issue with the font encodings of the ttf Indic fonts generally > > distributed. > > > > See emacswiki.org [1] for some details. The information might be dated > > but should still work. Also the thread on linux-delhi [2] might be > > useful. > > > > Footnotes: > > [1] http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/SupportHindi > > [2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi/15841 > Handa-san, could you please comment on this? Are there other > alternatives? That's true that currently Emacs can display Indic scripts correctly only with CDAC fonts. For emacs-unicode-2, I'm working on supporting Indic (and the others) with OpenType fonts. I think the work can be done before the official release of emacs-unicode (23.X or 24.1 ?). --- Kenichi Handa handa@m17n.org