[OS X Emacs] Rendering Devanagari (Unicode) correctly?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 19.12.2011 um 04:04 schrieb Richard Cobbe:

> What do I need to do in order to render Devanagari text correctly in Emacs
> on OS X?

I'd recommended to use the coming version 24 of GNU Emacs.

This screen-shot shows your file in three variants of almost the same code basis:

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Left is the X client. It is built with MacPorts, so it does not use m17n-flt which supports complex Asian type layout.
In the middle you can see the NS variant, which is closely related to Aquamacs. It uses a lot of Mac OS X and does not need X11.
Right is the "AppKit" variant of GNU Emacs 23.3a (which is effectively 23.3b). This one is a native Mac OS X/Aqua client as well.

All three use the LucidaSans Typewriter fonts from Java. The NS and AppKit variants can easily use your fonts once they are installed and visible in Font Book, the X client needs libfontconfig and and the fc-cache utility. Then libotf and the libm17n bundle can apply their magic. Though I'd recommend to use GNU Emacs 24 (now at 24.0.92), because it's more advanced in using bidi and complex type layout. There is no "stable" release of it, the code changes daily, but the two variants run very stable (Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, PPC or intel).

We can discuss details if needed.

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  Pete

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