Re: Internationalization

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

On Sep 30, 11:31 am, Girish Kulkarni wrote:
> 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. ... 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?

This file is an ASCII text. It sets X resources that GNU Emacs reads  
and applies at launch time. The file needs to have a particular name  
and it needs to be found in certain places.

>
>  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?

Not at all – it's no text processor

>
>  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?

I wonder too! It might have to do with the strange encoding of this  
file.

--
Greetings

   Pete

With Capitalism man exploits man. With communism it's the exact  
opposite.