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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From: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org (Emacs bug Tracking System)
To: Praveen A <pravi.a <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#5341 closed by Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org> (Re: bug#5341:
 Windows version of emacs does not support Indian Languages)
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:46:01 +0000
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#5341: Windows version of emacs does not support Indian Languages

It has been closed by Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>.

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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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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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