Subject: bug#22681: closed (Re: bug#22681: Shows right-to-left text characters in the wrong order)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 19:44:02 +0000

Your bug report

#22681: Shows right-to-left text characters in the wrong order

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#22681: Shows right-to-left text characters in the wrong order
From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 14:43:05 -0500
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

John Wiegley wrote:

> It displays here on OS X correctly.  Which font are you using?  What is the
> buffer coding system?  How was Emacs built?

No response in 10 months, closing.

Subject: Shows right-to-left text characters in the wrong order
From: Andrew Pennebaker <[email-masked]>
To: Emacs Bugs <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 11:27:52 -0600
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

The Arabic word for dog is al-kalb (الكلب), but when I try to insert this
word into an otherwise left-to-right document, Emacs renders the characters
of al-kalb backwards, forming nonsense.

System:

$ specs emacs brew os
specs --version
0.21

emacs --version
GNU Emacs 24.5.1
Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You may redistribute copies of Emacs
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.

brew --version
Homebrew 0.9.5 (git revision 1fc4; last commit 2016-02-09)

system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType | grep 'System Version'
    System Software Overview:
      System Version: OS X 10.11.3 (15D21)
      System Integrity Protection: Enabled

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Andrew