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#36171
25.1; Emacs displays Hebrew text incorrectly
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Reported by: Raoul Comninos <revrari <at> mweb.co.za>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 15:36:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 25.1
Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #14 received at 36171 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
I have libm17n-0 and libm17n-dev installed.
I changed to dejavu-sans-mono. (No change to the Hebrew font display.)
Below follows the information you asked for:
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position: 935 of 9244927 (0%), column: 7
character: לּ (displayed as לּ) (codepoint 64316, #o175474,
#xfb3c)
charset: unicode-bmp (Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane
(U+0000..U+FFFF))
code point in charset: 0xFB3C
script: hebrew
syntax: w which means: word
category: .:Base, R:Right-to-left (strong)
to input: type "C-x 8 RET fb3c" or "C-x 8 RET HEBREW
LETTER LAMED WITH DAGESH"
buffer code: #xEF #xAC #xBC
file code: #xEF #xAC #xBC (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
display: by this font (glyph code)
xft:-unknown-DejaVu
Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-29-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1 (#x13DB)
Character code properties: customize what to show
name: HEBREW LETTER LAMED WITH DAGESH
general-category: Lo (Letter, Other)
decomposition: (1500 1468) ('ל' 'ּ')
There are text properties here:
fontified
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On 2019/06/12 18:23, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> [Please use Reply to All to reply to the bug tracker as well, so this
> discussion gets recorded by the tracker.]
>
>> From: Raoul Comninos <revrari <at> mweb.co.za>
>> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 20:59:24 +0200
>>
>> Thank you for your response. Yes, the problem still occurs in Emacs -Q.
>>
>> I did as you asked and here are the full contents of the help buffers of
>> _two_ instances:
>>
>> position: 71 of 9244927 (0%), column: 7
>> character: ְ (displayed as ְ) (codepoint 1456, #o2660, #x5b0)
>> preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
>> code point in charset: 0x05B0
>> script: hebrew
>> syntax: w which means: word
>> category: ^:Combining
>> to input: type "C-x 8 RET 5b0" or "C-x 8 RET HEBREW POINT SHEVA"
>> buffer code: #xD6 #xB0
>> file code: #xD6 #xB0 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
>> display: by this font (glyph code)
>> xft:-unknown-Ezra SIL-normal-normal-normal-*-22-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1 (#xFE)
>>
>> Character code properties: customize what to show
>> name: HEBREW POINT SHEVA
>> general-category: Mn (Mark, Nonspacing)
>> decomposition: (1456) ('ְ')
>>
>> There are text properties here:
>> fontified t
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> position: 733239 of 9244928 (8%), column: 5
>> character: ׁ (displayed as ׁ) (codepoint 1473, #o2701, #x5c1)
>> charset: unicode-bmp (Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane (U+0000..U+FFFF))
>> code point in charset: 0x05C1
>> script: hebrew
>> syntax: w which means: word
>> category: ^:Combining
>> to input: type "C-x 8 RET 5c1" or "C-x 8 RET HEBREW POINT SHIN DOT"
>> buffer code: #xD7 #x81
>> file code: #xD7 #x81 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
>> display: composed to form "ׁ" (see below)
>>
>> Composed using this font:
>> xft:-unknown-Ezra SIL-normal-normal-normal-*-24-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1
>> by these glyphs:
>> [2 2 9676 334 18 2 17 15 -1 nil]
>> [2 2 1473 271 0 13 16 20 -18 nil]
>>
>> Character code properties: customize what to show
>> name: HEBREW POINT SHIN DOT
>> general-category: Mn (Mark, Nonspacing)
>> decomposition: (1473) ('ׁ')
>>
>> There are text properties here:
>> fontified t
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> These two characters are diacriticals. I'd also ask to please do the
> same with cursor on the base character (consonant), where a problem
> happens. For example, on the LAMED from the first screenshot.
>
> Also, can you try with a more standard font, like DejaVu Sans Mono?
>
> And finally, do you know what version of the libm17n-flt do you have
> installed? This library is used for shaping text of scripts such as
> Arabic and Hebrew.
>
>> For your interest I also attach a few screenshots as examples.
> I attach them below, since you didn't CC the bug address.
>
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