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Quirky behaviours with Arabic text

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From: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
To: sergei karhof <karhof21 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 10895 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, handa <at> m17n.org
Subject: bug#10895: Quirky behaviours with Arabic text
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:49:33 +0800

sergei karhof <karhof21 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I don't know much about these technical matters (I am just an
> end-user), but I would like to point out that as for 'shaping' the
> letters (if I understand correctly what it means), it is no issue at
> all, because the letters AND the vowel marks are shaped correctly. The
> problem is that the vowel marks are not displayed where they should,
> that they are out of synch, and that there is not enough vertical
> space to contain all the vowel marks.

Shaping in this context is about shaping whole words, not individual
letters. Positioning vowel marks correctly is part of that.

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