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From: Raoul Comninos <revrari@mweb.co.za>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 20:59:24 +0200
Thank you for your response. Yes, the problem still occurs in Emacs -Q.
I did as you asked and here are the full contents of the help buffers of
_two_ instances:
position: 71 of 9244927 (0%), column: 7
character: ְ (displayed as ְ) (codepoint 1456, #o2660, #x5b0)
preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
code point in charset: 0x05B0
script: hebrew
syntax: w which means: word
category: ^:Combining
to input: type "C-x 8 RET 5b0" or "C-x 8 RET HEBREW POINT SHEVA"
buffer code: #xD6 #xB0
file code: #xD6 #xB0 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
display: by this font (glyph code)
xft:-unknown-Ezra SIL-normal-normal-normal-*-22-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1
(#xFE)
Character code properties: customize what to show
name: HEBREW POINT SHEVA
general-category: Mn (Mark, Nonspacing)
decomposition: (1456) ('ְ')
There are text properties here:
fontified t
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position: 733239 of 9244928 (8%), column: 5
character: ׁ (displayed as ׁ) (codepoint 1473, #o2701, #x5c1)
charset: unicode-bmp (Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane
(U+0000..U+FFFF))
code point in charset: 0x05C1
script: hebrew
syntax: w which means: word
category: ^:Combining
to input: type "C-x 8 RET 5c1" or "C-x 8 RET HEBREW POINT SHIN
DOT"
buffer code: #xD7 #x81
file code: #xD7 #x81 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
display: composed to form "ׁ" (see below)
Composed using this font:
xft:-unknown-Ezra SIL-normal-normal-normal-*-24-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1
by these glyphs:
[2 2 9676 334 18 2 17 15 -1 nil]
[2 2 1473 271 0 13 16 20 -18 nil]
Character code properties: customize what to show
name: HEBREW POINT SHIN DOT
general-category: Mn (Mark, Nonspacing)
decomposition: (1473) ('ׁ')
There are text properties here:
fontified t
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These two characters are diacriticals. I'd also ask to please do the
same with cursor on the base character (consonant), where a problem
happens. For example, on the LAMED from the first screenshot.
Also, can you try with a more standard font, like DejaVu Sans Mono?
And finally, do you know what version of the libm17n-flt do you have
installed? This library is used for shaping text of scripts such as
Arabic and Hebrew.
For your interest I also attach a few screenshots as examples.
I attach them below, since you didn't CC the bug address.