Comments | sajith: In a friendly Emacs buffer next to me...

sajith

In a friendly Emacs buffer next to me...

Feb 03, 2008 13:36

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athiran February 4 2008, 05:30:38 UTC

my grandfather had told me about this loong back.

though we are never gon to use this, it's good that it's there in emac as a rudimentary thing just remind us of what we were.

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sajith February 4 2008, 09:05:20 UTC

I tried to learn this long back, and then forgot everything beyond ൩. :) I'm trying to figure out which font it is that Emacs has chosen to display Malayalam. None of the Malayalam fonts I've installed seem to use these numerals. (It isn't a property of Emacs per se, as far as I can tell.)

malayalam and emacs santhoshtr February 11 2008, 04:27:44 UTC

Hey,
How did u get emacs display malayalam?
Btw, all malayalam fonts has these numerals.

Re: malayalam and emacs sajith February 11 2008, 04:45:22 UTC

M-x set-language-environment Malayalam RET
M-x set-input-method malayalam-{itrans|inscript} RET

And oh this is on Ubuntu machine at work. It doesn't work on my Lenny laptop -- it's all empty boxes there. Need to fix fonts... install CDAC fonts or something. I haven't tried really. Scim works well enough when there's a need, thanks to help from you and Anivar. :)

All Malayalam fonts contain these numerals? Gnome-font-viewer doesn't display them at all. In a number of cases, it doesn't display the glyphs themselves. Maybe worth a bug report?

And these fonts are defunct now, with the universal adoption of Arabic numerals -- even schools don't teach them, so I don't know how people will adopt them... kind of confused.