On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 08:41:59PM +1100, Harshula wrote:
> Hi Josh,
> 
> On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 17:53 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 03:43:27AM +1100, Harshula wrote:
> 
> > > You've raised an interesting question. My initial reaction is Emacs
> > > should Depend on both libm17n-0 and m17n-db. Emacs appears to use
> > > libm17n and m17n-db for complex text layout. libm17n contains the C API
> > > and m17n-db contains the layout rules. So without both packages Emacs
> > > will not function correctly. For example, copy the following Sinhala
> > > text "කොහොමද" into Emacs with both libm17n-0 and m17n-db installed. Take
> > > a screenshot. Then remove m17n-db and copy the text into Emacs and see
> > > the difference.
> > 
> > Interesting.  It didn't make a difference with the default font I
> > normally use in Emacs (Neep Alt), but with DejaVu Sans Mono the first
> > character moved before the quote.  Does that sound like the correct
> > behavior?
> 
> No, that does not sound correct. I forgot to mention one important step,
> install ttf-sinhala-lklug.

Ah, I see.

> When I upload the next version of m17n-lib, I'll make it Depend on
> m17n-db and m17n-contrib. In the future, I expect m17n-db and
> m17n-contrib will be merged.

Thanks!

- Josh Triplett



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