GNU bug report logs - #11860
24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear

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Reported by: Steffan <smias <at> yandex.ru>

Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 18:43:12 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Kenichi Handa <handa <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 11860 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, smias <at> yandex.ru, jasonr <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#11860: 24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:03:26 +0900

In article <83wr0bdrwh.fsf <at> gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> > By the way, it seems that "arial" font has better OTF GPOS feautre
> > for Arabic than the default font "courier new".
> > 
> > Try to evaluate this on Windows:
> >   (set-fontset-font t 'arabic (font-spec :family "arial" :size 30))
> > and see the position of upper vowels.

> It indeed looks nicer, but its base line is too high, IMHO, and thus
> the Arabic text looks awkward wrt surrounding Latin text, see the
> attached snapshot.

That's perhaps because of ":size 30".  I specified it to
highlight the effect of GPOS.  If you don't specify it, it
seems that the result looks better, though, of course, I'm
not an expert of typesetting Arabic-English mixed test.

BTW, typesetting multiple scripts with different fonts is
a difficult task.


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Kenichi Handa
handa <at> gnu.org
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