Re: Malayalam rendering

[Ramakrishnan M]

 || On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 01:33:35 +0900
 || 川幡 太一 <address@hidden>( Taichi KAWABATA ) wrote: 

 川太> Hello, 
 川太> When I was back to home and read the mails, I was surprised to see so
 川太> many mail exchanged...

Yeah.. I am on vacation for a week and got some time to work on
interesting stuff only now. So I thought this is the best time to
see Malayalam implementation on Emacs.

 川太> It seems to me, as I've seen from the Table 9-1 of Unicode standards,
 川太> consonant + halant + ZWJ is used to form the half form of the
 川太> consonants.  Is it common to use these characters in Malayalam?  I
 川太> thought that the glyphs shown in Table 9-1 is only used in language
 川太> textbooks and not at the common usage.  

Yes, the five half-consonents are very common in Malayalam. Without that
the meaning of some words just change. i.e <consonent>+<halant> has
different meaning compared to <half-consonant> for those 5 characters.

 川太> Anyway, I thinkg it is easy to support them if the appropriate
 川太> corresponding glyphs are already prepared in indian-glyph.  I think it
 川太> is just add the new entries for them in mlm-char-glyph variable, isn't
 川太> it?

Yes. I think so.

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