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Re: Composing Hebrew diacriticals
From: |
Kenichi Handa |
Subject: |
Re: Composing Hebrew diacriticals |
Date: |
Thu, 06 May 2010 22:01:07 +0900 |
In article <address@hidden>, David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>>> I tried some copy&paste of Yiddish text including diacriticals into
>>> Emacs, with the result that without bidi-display-reordering set, the
>>> diacriticals were not composed with the letters, and with
>>> bidi-display-reordering set, they were composed just fine.
> >
> > Does cursor movement treat a character and the combined
> > diacritical mark as one unit?
> No.
Then, it seems that your Yiddish font just has special left
and right bearings for diacriticals that is suitable for the
case that they are drawn before (i.e. at the left of) a base
character.
> > What is shown when you put a cursor on a character that is
> > composed with a diacritical mark and type C-u C-x =?
> Depends on where I put the cursor.
Of course. I just wanted to see some example to check if
they are really composed or not.
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Kenichi Handa
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