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#5080
indic text is not displayed correctly in emacs shell
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Reported by: Praveen A <pravi.a <at> gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:50:03 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
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On Tuesday 01 December 2009 10:55 AM, Kenichi Handa wrote:
> In article<4B149E53.7060106 <at> redhat.com>, Parag Nemade<pnemade <at> redhat.com> writes:
>
>
>>> It seems that the coding system for your shell buffer is
>>> iso-8859-1. In which locale did you invoke Emacs? And
>>> please try to change the coding system for the shell buffer
>>> to utf-8 (C-x C-m p utf-8 RET utf-8 RET) and run ls and cat
>>> again.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I start emacs in English locale and then shell buffer and write some
>> Indic text there and found rendering is broken but when same text is
>> copied to gedit its rendering correctly.
>> I did what you asked and found still rendering broken with utf-8. I
>> even tried to run emacs in Marathi locale and see if it renders
>> correctly but still when I did cat marathi.txt, the contents printed in
>> shell have wrong rendering.
>> I am using Fedora 12 emacs-23.1-10.fc12 rpm.
>>
> In this case, which do you mean by "wrong rendering"?
>
> (1) As Praveen originally reported, Latin characters and
> some binary characters (\2xx) are shown instead of Indic
> (devanagari?, malayalam?) charactes.
>
That is why I sent you my problem separately and I am not sure how its
related to what Praveen has reported. Let Praveen answer your query first.
> (2) Indic characters are shown but with wrong rendering.
>
For me conjuncts are rendered as separately which is wrong which
can be seen in screenshot I sent you already with comparison to gedit
rendering.
Regards,
Parag.
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