From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 11075@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11075: 24.0.94; Arabic character composition
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:33:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120327143337.GB4437@pc201.uni-germanistik.gwdg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <838virupoy.fsf@gnu.org>
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 08:39:41PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:23:11 +0100
> > From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
> > Cc: 11075@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > > Unless you build Emacs with a library that supports Arabic shaping,
> > > you won't be able to have it. Does OS X offer such a library?
> >
> > I don't know, but I suspect it does, because Arabic text is displayed
> > correctly in e.g. TextEdit.
>
> Well, maybe you can find out what that libraries are and how to link
> against them, then we could include the necessary instructions in
> Emacs.
Since I'm not an Apple developer, I'm not really sure where to look for
such information. From what I've found through Google, it seems that the
relevant library is simply CoreText, but I may completely misunderstand how
OS X libraries work...
> I don't have access to OS X, so if you could build libotf and the
> other libraries mentioned in INSTALL and see if that gets you Arabic
> shaping, that'd be nice. Thanks in advance.
I've tried, but haven't been successful... m17n-db can be installed, though
it requires downloading the charmaps and installing GNU/gettext because the
program msgfmt isn't part of OS X. (It's part of GNU/gettext but not of the
gettext that comes with OS X, it seems.)
Then, however, configuring m17n-lib failed with the following message:
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
autoreconf: running: /usr/local/Cellar/autoconf/2.68/bin/autoconf --force
configure.ac:52: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
See the Autoconf documentation.
autoreconf: /usr/local/Cellar/autoconf/2.68/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
Since I have no idea what this is about, I stopped my attempts at
installation.
--
Dr. Joost Kremers
Georg-August-Universität
Seminar für Deutsche Philologie
Käte-Hamburger-Weg 3
D-37073 Göttingen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-27 14:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-23 15:44 bug#11075: 24.0.94; Arabic character composition Joost Kremers
2012-03-23 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-23 18:23 ` Joost Kremers
2012-03-23 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-27 14:33 ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2012-03-27 18:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-03 2:27 ` Kenichi Handa
2012-04-03 9:12 ` Joost Kremers
2012-04-02 7:21 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2012-04-02 7:44 ` Joost Kremers
2012-04-04 0:22 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2017-09-25 14:01 ` Alan Third
2017-09-25 14:17 ` John Wiegley
2017-09-25 16:51 ` Alan Third
2019-09-20 22:45 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-09-21 6:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-22 11:54 ` Alan Third
2019-09-22 20:23 ` mituharu
2019-09-23 18:40 ` Alan Third
2019-09-24 6:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 21:39 ` Alan Third
2019-09-28 6:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
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