GNU bug report logs - #5341
Windows version of emacs does not support Indian Languages

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From: Praveen A <pravi.a <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Cc: Kiran Jonnalagadda <jackerhack <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Windows version of emacs does not support Indian Languages
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 20:27:37 +0530

Hi,

One of my friends is looking for a way of using Indic comments in his
code. I suggested emacs as I have been using it successfully in many
Indian languages. But Indic text is not displayed in windows version
of emacs.

I downloaded windows version of emacs from
http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/ and ran it on GNU/Linux
using wine. It is showing question marks when entering Indic text,
selecting default font does not make any difference. I tested notepad
with wine and it displays Indic text correctly.

It would be good to have Indic support on windows as well.

Thanks
Praveen

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Message #10 received at 5341-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
To: Praveen A <pravi.a <at> gmail.com>, 5341-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5341: Windows version of emacs does not support Indian
	Languages
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:45:33 +0800

Praveen A wrote:
> It would be good to have Indic support on windows as well.
>   

Emacs has this support already.

My guess is that wine does the right thing with simple text output from 
applications like Notepad, but does not fully emulate calls to the 
underlying uniscribe library, which multilingual programs like Emacs use 
directly.

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