From e1504b9b0b2fdcf757c29dcc65ffe8b670cc7604 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:49:09 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] INSTALL: Mention that m17n libraries and libotf are needed for Arabic shaping. --- ChangeLog | 5 +++++ INSTALL | 22 +++++++++++++--------- 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index a80fa24c3c..c1a80f2d92 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2011-09-28 Eli Zaretskii + + * INSTALL: Mention that m17n libraries and libotf are needed for + Arabic shaping. + 2011-09-26 Paul Eggert Merge from gnulib, improving some licensing wording. diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 03682d19b1..3aed5a869c 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -111,15 +111,16 @@ ADDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION FILES * Complex Text Layout support libraries -Emacs needs the optional libraries "m17n-db", "libm17n-flt", "libotf" -to correctly display such complex scripts as Indic and Khmer. -On some systems, particularly GNU/Linux, these libraries may be -already present or available as additional packages. Note that if -there is a separate `dev' or `devel' package, for use at compilation -time rather than run time, you will need that as well as the -corresponding run time package; typically the dev package will contain -header files and a library archive. Otherwise, you can download and -build libraries from sources. +On GNU and Unix systems, Emacs needs the optional libraries "m17n-db", +"libm17n-flt", "libotf" to correctly display such complex scripts as +Indic and Khmer, and also for scripts that require Arabic shaping +support (Arabic and Farsi). On some systems, particularly GNU/Linux, +these libraries may be already present or available as additional +packages. Note that if there is a separate `dev' or `devel' package, +for use at compilation time rather than run time, you will need that +as well as the corresponding run time package; typically the dev +package will contain header files and a library archive. Otherwise, +you can download and build libraries from sources. The sources of these libraries are available by anonymous CVS from cvs.m17n.org. @@ -133,6 +134,9 @@ For m17n-lib, if you have problems with making the whole package because you lack some other packages on which m17n-lib depends, try to configure it with the option "--without-gui". +Note that Emacs cannot support complex scripts on a TTY, unless the +terminal includes such a support. + * intlfonts-VERSION.tar.gz The intlfonts distribution contains X11 fonts in various encodings -- 2.20.1