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

Peter Dyballa Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE
Tue Dec 20 05:14:45 EST 2011


Am 20.12.2011 um 04:36 schrieb Richard Cobbe:

>> This screen-shot shows your file in three variants of almost the same code basis:
> 
> Of the three, only the right-hand one is correct.

Because the line is so well connected? This could come from the font used...

Anyway, the AppKit Emacs uses almost completely the technology of Mac OS X (to display SVG graphics it seems to need librsvg2). So in theory it should produce a display similar to that of TextEdit.

It's likely that some time after GNU Emacs 24.1 will be released there'll be a large patch file and extra source files to upgrade the now stable GNU Emacs 24 to AppKit GNU Emacs 24. Right now there doesn't seem to exist a volunteer to offer the AppKit variant for download. YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu claims that his variant is not stable and ready for daily use. This can have been true last year, but recently I could compile very reliable applications – on Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard. (BTW, almost every month a new patch file and set of extra source files is released.)

Building AppKit Emacs is quite simple – in some existing Emacs. With TRAMP you can get the source file archives. In a *shell* buffer they can be out-packed onto disk, merged (some renaming needed), and then patched. With the Emacs command "compile" (M-x compile RET) you first start to configure and then compile. Building the self-contained application (or a "distributed" installation that shares most installed files between AppKit, X11, and NS variants) can be performed similarly. You need to install Xcode.

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Greetings

  Pete

Theory and practice are the same, in theory, but, in practice, they are different.




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