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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Praveen A <pravi.a <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 14:58:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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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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