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

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From: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>
To: Steffan <smias <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: Kenichi Handa <handa <at> gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
	11860 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11860: 24.1;
	Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:09:20 +0900

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>>>>> On Mon, 03 Sep 2012 19:49:04 +0200, Steffan <smias <at> yandex.ru> said:

> (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). 

Some of the examples don't look right with X11 on OS X to me, if I use
Arial 30pt.  See the screenshot with X11 (first) and with the Mac port
(second, with the patch in (*)).  Which font did you use when you
tried them on GNU/Linux?

(*): http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-09/msg00157.html

				     YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
				mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp

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