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Re: Xft and complex unicode rendering

From Alex <alex@rivadpm.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Xft and complex unicode rendering
Date 2017-05-04 13:21 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 5/4/2017 12:42, krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org wrote:
> On Thursday, May 4, 2017 at 5:51:44 AM UTC-5, Anton Ertl wrote:
>> krishna...org writes:
>>> Problem solved. Emacs (24.3.1 using GTK+) provides a terminal
>>> (term) which renders complex text correctly, including Telugu.
>> 
>> Thanks.  Which font are you using?
>> 
> 
> That's an interesting question. Within Forth running in the emacs
> terminal, I simply copy and paste a utf-8 string and type it to the
> console, e.g.
> 
> s" తెలుగు" type తెలుగు ok

My newsreader renders this; but the question is, does it
do so correctly? I don't know. Thunderbird on Windows is using Calibri, 
so I presume this font contains
  an extensive set of glyphs. It is 3 characters according to the string 
functions that manage the cursor.

-- 
Alex

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Xft and complex unicode rendering krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2017-05-01 08:13 -0700
  Re: Xft and complex unicode rendering krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2017-05-01 08:27 -0700
    Re: Xft and complex unicode rendering krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2017-05-06 09:21 -0700
  Re: Xft and complex unicode rendering anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-05-02 13:54 +0000
    Re: Xft and complex unicode rendering krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2017-05-02 14:54 -0700
      Re: Xft and complex unicode rendering anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-05-04 10:51 +0000
        Re: Xft and complex unicode rendering krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2017-05-04 04:47 -0700
          Re: Xft and complex unicode rendering krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2017-05-04 05:02 -0700
    Re: Xft and complex unicode rendering krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2017-05-02 19:24 -0700
      Re: Xft and complex unicode rendering anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-05-04 10:50 +0000
        Re: Xft and complex unicode rendering krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2017-05-04 04:42 -0700
          Re: Xft and complex unicode rendering Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-05-04 13:21 +0100
  Re: Xft and complex unicode rendering Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de> - 2017-05-02 23:14 +0000
    Re: Xft and complex unicode rendering krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2017-05-02 18:31 -0700
      Re: Xft and complex unicode rendering Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de> - 2017-05-06 01:25 +0000

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