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indic text is not displayed correctly in emacs shell

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5080: closed (indic text is not displayed correctly in emacs
 shell)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 02:53:02 +0000

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From: Praveen A <pravi.a <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Cc: pnemade <at> redhat.com, psatpute <at> redhat.com
Subject: indic text is not displayed correctly in emacs shell
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:13:45 +0530

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Hi,

Indic text is not rendered correctly in emacs shell (M-x shell).
Attached images show indic text displayed as escaped unicode values.
output of ls (when file names has indic characters) and cat (when
content of a file has indic characters) is displayed like that.

- Praveen

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: psatpute <at> redhat.com, 5080-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Parag Nemade <pnemade <at> redhat.com>, Kenichi Handa <handa <at> m17n.org>,
 Praveen A <pravi.a <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#5080: indic text is not displayed correctly in emacs shell
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 18:52:02 -0800

Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:

> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:
>
>> Praveen A <pravi.a <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>> (4a) Why is it taking Lohit Malayalam by default
>>>> (4b) Why is the display cluttered/overlapped with some fonts like Meera
>>>
>>> 4b is now resolved, details in
>>> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=5146
>>>
>>> Now only remaining issue in the list is about selecting default font.
>>> I think it should be taken from fc-match :lang=ml
>>
>> As far as I can tell from this thread, all the bugs were resolved,
>> except possibly this one.
>>
>> Is this still a problem in Emacs 24?
>
> That was 9 years ago.  Now that Emacs 27.1 is out, with harfbuzz support
> and many other changes, could you please try again and see if you are
> still seeing any errors?
>
> FWIW, I tried quickly inserting indic text into a shell-mode buffer and
> couldn't see anything wrong with it at a glance.  (But my inspection may
> be overly superficial I can't read the script.)
>
> Thanks in advance.

More information was requested, but none was given within 14 weeks, so
I'm closing this bug.  If this is still an issue, please reply to this
email (use "Reply to all" in your email client) and we can reopen the
bug report.

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