GNU bug report logs - #7005
24.0.50; Devanagari rendering broken

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 16:16:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Kenichi Handa <handa <at> m17n.org>
To: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon <at> gmail.com>
Cc: rfrancoise <at> debian.org, 7005 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, miles <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#7005: 24.0.50; Devanagari rendering broken
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:34:02 +0900

In article <20100909160424.GA16852 <at> kytes>, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Steps to reproduce:
> Open a file containing UTF-8 Devanagari script in Emacs. It is rendered
> incorrectly. For example, in the word "लिखने", The first and second
> rendered characters are swapped. Konsole (Qt) renders this correctly.

Emacs 23 and later shifted the support of Indic (and any
other complex scripts) to OpenType fonts.  And, on
GNU/Linux, you need libotf, m17n-db, and m17n-lib to make
Emacs render those scripts correctly by OTF.

> A page on the EmacsWiki suggests a workaround that works on Ubuntu
> though [1].

It's not a "workaround" but the right thing on GNU/Linux
systems.

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Kenichi Handa
handa <at> m17n.org
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