Re: Re: Arabic support

TAKAHASHI Naoto <[email protected]> Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:22:50 +0900

Newsgroups	gmane.emacs.bidi,gmane.emacs.devel
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Thamer Mahmoud writes:

> * Attached are two screenshots showing the Arabic line from the HELLO
>   file rendered by gedit and Emacs using the same font (Nazli-20 from
>   ttf-farsiweb). Notice that in Emacs not all fonts have their LAM and
>   ALIF properly replaced by the LAM-ALIF ligature. Also the diacritics
>   (SHADDA) appears lower and less legible for the same font.

This problem is caused by the combination of nazli.ttf, which has
rather unusual OTF tables, and a bug in m17n-db.  I will try to find a
workaround.

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TAKAHASHI Naoto
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