Re: [emacs-bidi] missing fonts for bidi Emacs on cygwin

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, "Martin J. Dürst" <address@hidden> writes:

> I installed m17n-db, m17n-lib, and libotf, as indicated in the INSTALL 
> file. I also installed intlfonts, afterwards. But that didn't help. 
> Maybe I should have installed intlfonts before?

No, intlfonts is not related to CTL (Complex Text Layout).

> There are several details in INSTALL that could make things easier:

> - Mention additional distribution files upfront. In particular people 
> who are not very good at English will read it slowly, and proceed as 
> they read the file.

> - If possible, integrate these various packages with Emacs itself. There 
> may be copyright problems to not have things in the same repository, but 
> I don't see a problem with making them external libraries in the 
> repository so that they get downloaded automatically, and automating the 
> make process. If we say "Emacs does complex scripts." and "Emacs does 
> bidi.", then that should be the default, not some "additional 
> distribution files" option.

> - For m17n-db, m17n-lib, and libotf, mention that they should be 
> installed in that order. Currently, it looks like they are independent, 
> which they aren't.

Ah, no, libotf should be installed first.  Otherwise,
m17n-lib doesn't utilize libotf, and thus provides very
limitted CTL support.  I'll fix INSTALL soon.

> - The section on intlfonts says "If you see a non-ASCII character appear 
> as a hollow box...". These days, characters with missing glyphs are 
> displayed as a box with a number, so the text should be adapted here, I 
> guess.

Right.

>>> 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?

> No, sorry, it didn't change.

I'll work on this problem.

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Kenichi Handa
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