Re: [emacs-bidi] missing fonts for bidi Emacs on cygwin

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, "Martin J. Dürst" <address@hidden> writes:

> In the meantime, I have added all the Cygwin font packages that I 
> possibly could. The situation improved. Arabic letters are now shown, in 
> the right RTL order. But they are not connected. Hindi (i.e. Devanagari) 
> seems to have similar problems.

On Cygwin, perhaps you must install m17n-lib, etc.  Please
see the section "* Complex Text Layout support libraries" in
the file INSTALL.

> On the other hand, these work fine in the Windows version. The only 
> problem that I found in the Windows version is that U+30FC (Katakana 
> length mark) doesn't show (it's just a box with the number 30FC), even 
> though the rest of Japanese works well.

That's is a known problem.  Does the situation change when
you do C-x RET L Japanese RET?

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Kenichi Handa
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