Re: devanagari word processing

["Mahesh T. Pai" <paivakil vsnl net>]

Stefan Baums said on Mon, May 31, 2004 at 11:31:26AM -0700,:

 > > 2. ���� ��ڳ��� (GNU Emacs)
 > 
 > What’s that in front of the parenthesis?

Ought  to be  `GNU/Emacs'  in Devanagari.   But  seems something  went
wrong. I  reverted back  to mutt/Emacs combo  (from Mozilla  and Kmail
last two weeks)  to read and send  mail (on X) and when  i composed it
the first time, I could read the nagari. But Not now.
 
 > stable Emacs (21.3) has no support for Indian scripts.  If there

I  am using GNU  Emacs, 21.3.50.3  straight from  the cvs  tree. Indic
scripts support is patchy.
 
 > ever is a 21.4 version, it is supposed to support Indian scripts
 > if and only if you install a special set of non‐standard fonts:

Yes. You  need special fonts  from the emacs-intl-fonts  package.  But
what  do you  mean non-standard?  Aren't  they unicode?  And for  some
reason, I cannot seem to be  able to use the Inscript input method for
devanagari on Emacs.

At least here, I can read malayalam text (Not devanagari, as the above
sequence  shows) and  save it  in  *valid* unicode  after reading  and
encoding.  But  the system  used by  Emacs to get  the fonts  from the
system  is  a  bit  mulish.   (pun unintended).   For  getting  proper
rendering  in Malayalam,  I have  to jump  through a  few  hoops, like
selecting the  text and  running some command  in geekese to  view the
font in a non-gpl'ed BDF font. This, you will agree, is in no way user
friendly.

 >    http://www.m17n.org/emacs-indian/

Thanks for all this info.

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