bug#5080: closed (indic text is not displayed correctly in emacs shell)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: indic text is not displayed correctly in emacs shell Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:13:45 +0530

Hi,

Indic text is not rendered correctly in emacs shell (M-x shell).
Attached images show indic text displayed as escaped unicode values.
output of ls (when file names has indic characters) and cat (when
content of a file has indic characters) is displayed like that.

- Praveen

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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)
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> Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
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> > Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
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> >> Praveen A <pravi.a@gmail.com> writes:
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> >>>> (4a) Why is it taking Lohit Malayalam by default
> >>>> (4b) Why is the display cluttered/overlapped with some fonts like Meera
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> >>> 4b is now resolved, details in
> >>> http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=5146
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> >>> Now only remaining issue in the list is about selecting default font.
> >>> I think it should be taken from fc-match :lang=ml
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> >> As far as I can tell from this thread, all the bugs were resolved,
> >> except possibly this one.
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> >> Is this still a problem in Emacs 24?
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> > That was 9 years ago.  Now that Emacs 27.1 is out, with harfbuzz support
> > and many other changes, could you please try again and see if you are
> > still seeing any errors?
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> > FWIW, I tried quickly inserting indic text into a shell-mode buffer and
> > couldn't see anything wrong with it at a glance.  (But my inspection may
> > be overly superficial I can't read the script.)
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> > Thanks in advance.
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> More information was requested, but none was given within 14 weeks, so
> I'm closing this bug.  If this is still an issue, please reply to this
> email (use "Reply to all" in your email client) and we can reopen the
> bug report.
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