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indic text is not displayed correctly in emacs shell

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Message #309 received at 5080-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

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
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