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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Message #8 received at 22681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Andrew Pennebaker <andrew.pennebaker <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 22681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22681: Shows right-to-left text characters in the wrong order
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 20:23:57 +0200

> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 11:27:52 -0600
> From: Andrew Pennebaker <andrew.pennebaker <at> gmail.com>
> 
> 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.

Do you see the same with the Arabic and Hebrew greetings in the buffer
presented by the "C-h H" command?

Anyway, this sounds like something OS X specific, because on my system
(which is not OS X) the Arabic word you cited is displayed in its
correct visual order.
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