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bug#10895: Quirky behaviours with Arabic text
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From: |
Jason Rumney |
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Subject: |
bug#10895: Quirky behaviours with Arabic text |
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Date: |
Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:54:41 +0800 |
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User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) |
sergei karhof <karhof21@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
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>> Sergei, could you please try invoking Emacs with the
>> `-xrm Emacs.fontBackend:gdi' command-line argument, and see if the
>> problem persists with the GDI backend? That's assuming that GDI at
>> all supports Arabic shaping; I don't know enough about this to tell,
>> sorry.
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> I have just tried this, but it totally messes up the text, as you can
> see from screenshot #5 here attached.
I would expect that. The GDI font backend has no support for font
shaping, which is definitely required for proper Arabic support. What I
suspect is that Emacs is doing more in terms of supporting Arabic than
the uniscribe shaping engine expects.