GNU bug report logs - #10895
Quirky behaviours with Arabic text

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: sergei karhof <karhof21 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:43:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

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From: sergei karhof <karhof21 <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: jasonr <at> gnu.org, 10895 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Kenichi Handa <handa <at> m17n.org>
Subject: bug#10895: Quirky behaviours with Arabic text
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:26:45 +0100

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On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> Sergei, could you please try invoking Emacs with the
> `-xrm Emacs.fontBackend:gdi' command-line argument, and see if the
> problem persists with the GDI backend?  That's assuming that GDI at
> all supports Arabic shaping; I don't know enough about this to tell,
> sorry.

I have just tried this, but it totally messes up the text, as you can
see from screenshot #5 here attached.

[#5.jpg (image/jpeg, attachment)]
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