GNU bug report logs - #28339
25.2; Emacs shows ZWNJ character (Zero Width non-Joiner) as Space

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Nima Aryan <nimawebgard <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 16:41:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.2

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #89 received at 28339 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Benjamin Riefenstahl <b.riefenstahl <at> turtle-trading.net>
Cc: handa <at> gnu.org, nimawebgard <at> gmail.com, 28339 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28339: 25.2;
 Emacs shows ZWNJ character (Zero Width non-Joiner) as Space
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 21:23:56 +0300

> From: Benjamin Riefenstahl <b.riefenstahl <at> turtle-trading.net>
> Cc: handa <at> gnu.org,  nimawebgard <at> gmail.com,  28339 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 20:05:23 +0200
> 
> >> From: Benjamin Riefenstahl <b.riefenstahl <at> turtle-trading.net>
> >> I thought that with OpenType at least that depends on the font?
> 
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
> > It does, but Handa-san seems to say that even the best fonts don't
> > consider ZWNJ part of any grapheme cluster, and always leave it alone.
> 
> It breaks shaping and ligatures, so the result is not a cluster by
> definition, I think.

It could be considered a cluster with the preceding character.
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