Subject: Re:bug#11860: 24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear

From: Steffan <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2012 19:49:04 +0200

>> From: Steffan <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: [email-masked],[email-masked],[email-masked],Kenichi Handa <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2012 17:31:39 +0200
>>
>> Thanks, this bug is now fixed. But there is something wrong with the two diacritics (short vowels): ARABIC KASRA and ARABIC KASRATAN. They should appear UNDER the letters, not IN or OVER them.
>>
>> Try a-A [Sheen-Kasra] or a-S [Sheen-Kasratan] or d-S [Ya-Kasratan].
> 
> Seems to work fine on XP. I will have to try on Windows 7 later.
> 
>> The arabic letters don't have a constant form. This seems to be the problem (?): Try f-S and compare with f-S-f.
> 
> I don't understand what you are saying here. Is something wrong with
> how f-S or f-S-f are displayed? If so, what exactly is wrong? If
> that's not what you meant, then what "seems to be the problem"?
> 
> Thanks.

(See the screenshot)

Well, comparin u-S with u-S-u is a better example. (S =ARABIC AIN)
- By u-S you see the KASRATAN in the AIN which is wrong.
- But after typing the second u, you get it correctly. Beaucse AIN (like most arabic letters) changes its form (not like hebrew) if you add another letter: it gets smaller, and so the Kasratan get the right position.
Emacs in Linux handels it correctly: The Kasratan CHANGES it's position after typing the second AIN (u-S-u). 

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