From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Unicode combining characters Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 13:22:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40317"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Anand Tamariya Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 25 19:37:57 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1llb07-000AE5-J6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 25 May 2021 19:37:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34374 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1llb06-00021R-Lj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 25 May 2021 13:37:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34000) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1llalH-0001DX-Cy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 May 2021 13:22:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:49538) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1llalD-0002hJ-UX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 May 2021 13:22:34 -0400 Original-Received: from pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 74C2580182; Tue, 25 May 2021 13:22:27 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 226AD80169; Tue, 25 May 2021 13:22:26 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1621963346; bh=ieoc2pzfKWxpMdikcQykn0hutB9a2AnbiejePAAPprg=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=bLk4ppJSei7cusu9dY/x/8HTVYWC8fev2yZDOr60wmfGJiSCOXsn8OTgI08H4cw+z nLHpv5NGZGnhWn76YB7LLRKiJ3D0VEjlAqf2VowCxVW8sZDgpE4HeNXcwuL0gY7TdG /oU8N19+QijkfWZi0XSohgg2xa/64Rc706RFIDmPRPKZ+X3fK1q0rMydj6dbEMpLsf FBxgERFP9h7nR1s9fxqg6a+eGaNHWGHPCJLERIv/ZgS3i+F2o23Vu0j1LUdhgZBYKX ONNWauIw2zLzR6i2MeRXT+DaOZRMQHw1wxcWr9RDNFV/Ux6GHtO9TsD/phgyDZnKsW 6lXaoNUJ7OE1A== Original-Received: from alfajor (69-196-163-239.dsl.teksavvy.com [69.196.163.239]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DC9301209D6; Tue, 25 May 2021 13:22:25 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Anand Tamariya's message of "Tue, 25 May 2021 21:26:44 +0530") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=132.204.25.50; envelope-from=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca; helo=mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca X-Spam_score_int: -42 X-Spam_score: -4.3 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.3 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:269871 Archived-At: > Hindi Devanagari script has lot of unicode combining characters which > results in misalignment in a rectangular overlay for constant number of > characters (screenshot ) > > What would be a recommended way to tackle this in Emacs? In a GUI session, the usual answer is to use posframe, AFAIK. Stefan