Re: Automatically Saved Files Employ Different Coding

[Alexander Winston]

On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 12:51 +0900, Kenichi Handa wrote:

> In article <address@hidden>, Alexander Winston <address@hidden> writes:

[snip]

> > as I normally do not encounter any problems using
> > Arabic. See screenshots
> > <http://home.comcast.net/~alexander.winston/w3m.png> and
> > <http://home.comcast.net/~alexander.winston/ar.png>, for example. The
> > former was taken while using w3m and the latter while using Emacs; both
> > were taken while viewing <http://www.arabia.com/>, a site that seems to
> > use valid UTF-8.
> 
> You do have a problem using Arabic because the rendering is
> incorrect.  In you images, it seems that all Arabic letters
> are rendered by isolated form, not with correct
> initial/medial/final form.

Hmm, that stinks. Do you know where I, a humble English-only speaker,
can find information regarding the differences between the four forms?

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