GNU bug report logs - #50951
28.0.50; Urdu text is not displayed correctly

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Rah Guzar <aikrahguzar <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 20:19:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 28.0.50

Done: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #53 received at 50951 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Rah Guzar <aikrahguzar <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 50951 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50951: Fwd: bug#50951: 28.0.50;
 Urdu text is not displayed correctly
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2021 19:09:54 +0300

> From: Rah Guzar <aikrahguzar <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2021 18:06:09 +0200
> Cc: 50951 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
>  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.
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