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Emacs support of non-fixed width fonts is also pretty bad. My language Urdu is basically impossible to write on Emacs - or at least it was 5 years ago when I st

• ywei3410 6y ago
  The HarfBuzz font engine should help. What trouble were you having with specifically?
  • NateEag 6y ago
    Clarification: HarfBuzz is available in Emacs as of the recent 27.1 release.
• sreevisakh 6y ago
  You should give it another try. My native script is also hard to render as fixed-width. But the latest Emacs seems to be doing well.
• jasomill 6y ago
  As a masochist who prefers a variable-pitch default font in Emacs, (defun fixed-pitch-mode (&optional arg) (interactive (list (or current-prefix-arg 'toggle))) (buffer-face-mode-invoke 'fixed-pitch (or arg t) nil)) is a handy "escape hatch", usable as both a key binding and a major mode hook.