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Re: devanagari in emacs-22
From: |
harry meyers |
Subject: |
Re: devanagari in emacs-22 |
Date: |
14 Aug 2006 03:20:44 -0700 |
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G2/0.2 |
Okay....
In article <44DC7CBB.10901@stud...>, Lennart Borgman
<lennart.borgman.073@stud...> writes:
>> I installed gnu intlfonts-1.2.1 to /usr/local/share/emacs/fonts. Then
>> as indicated in the README file put the directory to the font path,
>> updated the font hash table with 'xset fp rehash'. But when I now open
>> the hello file still no hindi characters are displayed.
>> Mmh, what am I missing?
>Unfortunately intlfonts-1.2.1 doesn't contain Indic fonts.
>The current Emacs contains an Indic scripts renderers that
>use Indic fonts of ISFOC-encoding, but as there are only
>proprietary CDAC fonts supporting that encoding. Although
>CDAC fonts are available for no-change, they are not free
>and the negotiation between FSF and CDAC for making them
>free didn't go well. So we don't include them in intlfonts.
>We are now working hard to support OpenType Indic fonts in
>Emacs in emacs-unicode-2 branch, but the work is not yet
>finished.
>
>---
>Kenichi Handa
>handa@m17n...