GNU bug report logs - #22681
Shows right-to-left text characters in the wrong order

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Andrew Pennebaker <andrew.pennebaker <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:29:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo, wontfix

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
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Subject: bug#22681: closed (Shows right-to-left text characters in the
 wrong order)
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 19:44:02 +0000
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From: Andrew Pennebaker <andrew.pennebaker <at> gmail.com>
To: Emacs Bugs <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Shows right-to-left text characters in the wrong order
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 11:27:52 -0600
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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
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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 22681-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22681: Shows right-to-left text characters in the wrong order
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 14:43:05 -0500
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.


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