Re: Display of Lao script

[handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Stephen Berman <address@hidden> writes:
> > Could you please put the attached version of LAOO-OTF.flt under
> > /usr/share/m17n (without any other LAOO-*.flt), and try again?

> With this version the Lao composed characters display correctly; FYI the
> debugging output is appended below.  (With this version the variable
> pitch DejaVu Sans also correctly displays the character compositions,
> including the one that was previously incorrectly displayed with this
> font.)

Thank you for checking.  So, the layout engine itself is working well,
and the problem is...

> However, when I move the LAOO-{ALICE,GENERIC,MULE}.flt files
> back to /usr/share/m17n, leaving the new LAOO-OTF.flt there, the display
> is again incorrect and the debugging output shows laoo-generic being
> used.

LAOO-OTF.flt is not preferred over the other Lao layouting tables.  I'll
check the source code of m17n-lib.

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K. Handa
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