Re: Malayalam rendering

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, address@hidden (Ramakrishnan M) writes:
kh>  This screenshot contains many empty boxes.
kh>      http://www.hackGNU.org/emacs-mal/Screenshot-1.png
kh>  What are they?  Is it a bug that is fixed by the above
kh>  change?

> The above patch fixes some of the problems in that
> screenshot. But that text as shown in that screenshot was
> not written using Emacs. It was generated using some other
> tools, I guess by someone else (It is the translation of
> GNU GPL in Malayalam). There are problems in the generated
> file. So I guess we don't have to worry. I will try to
> write the same text natively in Emacs.

As I found this file on the net:
   http://fsf.org.in/projects/malayalam-gpl/gpl-ml-unicode-pre.txt
I checked the contents.  Those empty boxes are ZWJ
characters.  But, it seems strange that we need so many ZWJ
for Malayalam writing.

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