Re: [Freebangfont-devel] Emacs support for Bengali display

[Neil Jerram]

Deepayan Sarkar <address@hidden> writes:

> On Saturday 13 March 2004 11:50, Neil Jerram wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > What, if any, is the issue with Emacs support for displaying Bengali?
> > Is it something that I could help out with?  (I have a lot of
> > experience with Emacs.)
> 
> I don't really know. I do know that Emacs can now show truetype fonts, but 
> I don't think there are any plans to implement opentype lookups. Do you 
> think that would be feasible ? I'm a regular Emacs user, but I know next 
> to nothing about it's internals. I would love to have Bengali support in 
> it though.
> 
> AFAIK, the Emacs Devanagari support (in MULE) is via some Emacs specific 
> hack. I don't think something like that is worth the effort, as it would 
> depend on specially encoded fonts and who knows what else.
> 
> Deepayan

OK, thanks, I'll continue investigating what's possible with the
encoding that the existing fonts already have.

        Neil