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bug#7005: 24.0.50; Devanagari rendering broken
From: |
Kenichi Handa |
Subject: |
bug#7005: 24.0.50; Devanagari rendering broken |
Date: |
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:34:02 +0900 |
In article <20100909160424.GA16852@kytes>, Ramkumar Ramachandra
<artagnon@gmail.com> writes:
> Steps to reproduce:
> Open a file containing UTF-8 Devanagari script in Emacs. It is rendered
> incorrectly. For example, in the word "लिखने", The first and second
> rendered characters are swapped. Konsole (Qt) renders this correctly.
Emacs 23 and later shifted the support of Indic (and any
other complex scripts) to OpenType fonts. And, on
GNU/Linux, you need libotf, m17n-db, and m17n-lib to make
Emacs render those scripts correctly by OTF.
> A page on the EmacsWiki suggests a workaround that works on Ubuntu
> though [1].
It's not a "workaround" but the right thing on GNU/Linux
systems.
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Kenichi Handa
handa@m17n.org