Re: How to get the concated characters in Indic languages like Gujarati/Hindi?

[Andy Moreton]

On Tue 14 Aug 2018, Kaushal Modi wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 10:32 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> Yes, this is likely to be a problem with the required font not being
>> installed.
>>
>
> It does not seem to be a font issue. The default font picked up by Emacs is
> Lohit Gujarati. See this image[0]. The same "નમસ્તે" string is rendering
> incorrectly in the Emacs buffer, while shows up as expected in LibreOffice
> 5.2.5.1 when using the same font.
>
> How do I specify the font to be used for specific glyphs (like only the the
> Gujarati glyph Unicodes)? I can try different fonts. But I expect the
> result to be the same in Emacs. That sample Gujarati string renders fine in
> LibreOffice for few Gujarati fonts I had at hand.
>
> [0]: https://i.imgtc.com/7a3MVDL.png

Try something like:

  (set-fontset-font "fontset-default" 'gujarati "Lohit Gujarati")

HTH,

    AndyM