Re: Bengali Rendering in Emacs 23

[Peter Dyballa]

> Abu Zaher <zaher14@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi,I&#39;m using Ubuntu 9.04, and running emacs-snapshot 20090320.  
> > I see that while it can render Bengali characters, it can&#39;t  
> > render them in correct order. for eg কো is being rendered as  
> > ক‍ো whereas কী is rendering fine. Am I missing any  
> > configurations? I suppose there are some rendering issues with  
> > Bengali in Emacs, am I right?


Of course! A few oriental scripts change the shape of glyphs when  
they become neighbours of particular characters. An evolved text  
processor (for example XeTeX or the Mellel application for Mac OS X,  
Yudit for Linux) takes from an OpenType font (OTF) information about  
this. GNU Emacs can partially deliver the same performance by using  
Pango and lib17n *with* OTF fonts, for which to open GNU Emacs needs  
to be configured and built with libotf. So it's up to you to install  
useful Bengali OT fonts on your system.

And of course you can check whether other applications on your Ubuntu  
system perform the task correctly. When they do and GNU Emacs fails,  
then the customisation in your or the system's init files can be the  
cause. To prevent their interference you can launch GNU Emacs with  
the -Q option.

--
Greetings

  Pete

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