bug#21260: 23.2; Devanagari windows 10

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: 21260@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Jim Funderburk <funderburk1@verizon.net>
> Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 15:55:23 -0400
> 
>    Here is another dropbox link with further info you requested:
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/3er09sc7jc8m5kc/emacs-devanagari.zip?dl=0
>    There are two images:
>    1. emacs-devanagari.png    This is a screen shot of me opening up the 
> file
>       in Emacs via  command line,  and of what the file looks like on my 
> system.
>       It looks like all boxes.
>    2. emacs-Ctl-h-H.png     This is screen shot of what emacs shows 
> after Ctl-h-H command.
>         As you can see, the South Asian language shows up in boxes, 
> also  'Hindi' and 'Kannada'
>         Also  (maybe outside of the image)  Tamil and Telugu - all South 
> Asian languages.
>    You asked what font -  when I do menu Options/Set Default Font, it 
> shows as Courier New.
>        I have tried changing to Arial, Lucida Sans Unicode, Consolas  
> with no improvement.
>     Note:  I thought maybe  this is due to a deficiency in the fonts in 
> Windows 10.  However,
>                 When I open the file in Notepad,   the Devanagari 
> displays just fine;  Notepad
>                  shows that it is using Consolas Font.
>     Note2:  Also, I have a Windows Vista system and this displays fine 
> in the same Emacs 23 on that system.
>     Note3:  ALso, I tried Emacs 24 on Windows 10, and the same problem 
> occurs.
> 
>     So, As of now, it seems like there is a bug in displaying South 
> Asian Unicode text in Emacs on Windows 10.

Does this work better?

  emacs -Q -xrm Emacs.fontBackend:gdi