Subject: Re: bug#50951: Fwd: bug#50951: 28.0.50; Urdu text is not displayed correctly

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2021 19:09:54 +0300

> From: Rah Guzar <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2021 18:06:09 +0200
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
>  What kind of issues did you have in mind?
> 
> This might be me not understanding how required characters work but if a user sets a font
> for only Arabic (not Urdu) and the font doesn't have these characters, will it cause emacs
> to use a fallback for Arabic text? Or is the restriction only relevant for the selection of implicit
> fallback?

No, if the user customizes the fontset, the font specified there will
be used, no questions asked.  The representative characters are only
used for selecting the fonts by default.  AFAIK, at least.