Re: missing fonts for bidi Emacs on cygwin

Kenichi Handa <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:27:28 +0900
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.bidi
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In article <[email protected]>, "Martin J. D=FCrst" <duerst@=
it.aoyama.ac.jp> 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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