Re: Internationalization

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 26.10.2007 um 15:44 schrieb Girish Kulkarni:

> > This file is an ASCII text. It sets X resources that GNU Emacs reads
> > and applies at launch time. The file needs to have a particular name
> > and it needs to be found in certain places.
>
> Thanks for the explanation. But I do not know where to *obtain*
> Emacs.ap from. It doesn't seem to come with the distribution.

Could be it's this one:

!! BEGIN intlfonts setup
!! By default, use 16 dots fonts
Emacs.Font: fontset-16
!! For small screen users (eg. 640x480 or 800x600)
Emacs.Fontset-0: -etl-*-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-14
!! For meidum screen users (eg. 1024x780)
Emacs.Fontset-1: -etl-*-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-16
!! For meidum screen users (eg. 1024x780) suitable for Thai characters
Emacs.Fontset-2: -etl-*-medium-r-normal-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-18
!! For large screen users (eg. 1280x1024 or larger)
Emacs.Fontset-3: -etl-*-medium-r-normal-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-24
!! END intlfonts setup

More entries are possible, look at the X Resources node in GNU  
Emacs's info node.

> > >
> > Not at all - it's no text processor
>
> Devanagari ligatures are different from Latin ligatures in that
> Devanagari becomes unreadable if the ligatures are not rendered
> correctly. This is something a Devanagari reader would expect not only
> from text processors but from any place where Devanagari is written. I
> hope somebody on emacs-devel has taken note of this. Devanagari
> support without ligatures is no Devanagari support at all.

You *might* get better rendering when using GNU Emacs 23.0.60, the  
unicode-2 branch from CVS, with libotf. Then GNU Emacs will have  
knowledge about ligatures and such from the OpenType font. Then it's  
still a second issue whether this knowledge is applied ... Again  
emacs-devel might explain more and better!

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  Pete

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