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Re: [Freebangfont-devel] Emacs support for Bengali display
From: |
Sayamindu Dasgupta |
Subject: |
Re: [Freebangfont-devel] Emacs support for Bengali display |
Date: |
Sun, 14 Mar 2004 14:20:33 +0530 |
On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 18:02 -0600, Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
> 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.
this seems to be interesting
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=4036282&forum_id=5765
-sdg-
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