Re: emacs and indian scripts

In article <[email protected]>, François Patte <[email protected]> writes:

> That is exactly what is expected. But, if I select bengali-itrans input
> method, I cannot get any display of the bengali glyph in emacs (only an
> empty rectangle) and describe-char gives:

That's because Emacs 22 still doesn't support the layout
engine for Bengali.  Emacs 22 supports only devanagari,
kannada, malayalam, and tamil (among Indic scripts).

On the other hand, Emacs 23 (not yet released, only
available by CVS) supports all Indic scripts with OpenType
fonts.

Emacs 23 itself can be downloaded by:

% cvs -z3 -d :pserver:[email protected]:/sources/emacs co emacs

And for Indic OpenType fonts supports, you must get the
latest libotf, m17n-db, m17n-lib:

% cvs -d :pserver:[email protected]:/cvs/m17n login
% cvs -d :pserver:[email protected]:/cvs/m17n co libotf
% cvs -d :pserver:[email protected]:/cvs/m17n co m17n-db
% cvs -d :pserver:[email protected]:/cvs/m17n co m17n-lib

Please install libotf, m17n-lib, m17n-db, and emacs in this
order.

---
Kenichi Handa
[email protected]