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, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: bug#11860: 24.1;
	Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 18:56:47 +0900

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>>>>> On Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:52:31 +0200, Steffan <smias <at> yandex.ru> said:

>> 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


> There are also in linux problems with some fonts for arabic, for
> example: KacstNaskh have only one form for every arabic letter! But
> it works with the many fonts as Arial, Tholoth, DejaVu and Metal,
> which my linux machine uses by default.

Thanks.  I also tried myself with Ubuntu 12.04 by installing Arial
using the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package.  It seems to install a
different version of the Arial font (2.82) than what's bundled with OS
X 10.8 (5.01.2x).  The result is also different from what I showed
before on OS X, but still doesn't look right unlike yours (see the
attached screenshot).

I used libotf 0.9.12, m17n-db 1.6.3, and m17n-lib 1.6.3 on both
platforms.

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

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