From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham@ntlworld.com>
Cc: 20140@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org
Subject: bug#20140: 24.4; M17n shaper output rejected
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 15:15:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a6er2br1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220215210605.1c41c1b2@JRWUBU2> (message from Richard Wordingham on Tue, 15 Feb 2022 21:06:05 +0000)
> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 21:06:05 +0000
> From: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham@ntlworld.com>
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 20140@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > > Not off the top of my head, but compare لحج with the presentation
> > > form ﳊ U+FCCA ARABIC LIGATURE LAM WITH HAH INITIAL FORM for the
> > > first two letters. The lam part is a vertical line in the middle
> > > of the glyph; the 'hah' part forms the lower part of the glyph.
> >
> > They look identical here (using the default Courier New font). With
> > what font did you think they will look wrong?
>
> In the Courier New font in Windows 10 of 2017 (+ automatic updates),
> U+FCCA looks like the image in the Unicode code chart, and bears little
> resemblance to the righthand two thirds of <U+0644, U+062D, U+062C>.
> In keeping with its Latin part, the sequence of three characters looks
> as one would expect from a typewriter when one enters text letter by
> letter.
It sounds like Courier New in Windows 10 was "improved" by removing
the capability of ligating those 2 characters. On Windows XP, their
standard Courier New shows the first 2 characters ligate into a single
glyph, which looks just like U+FCCA, but on Windows 10 they don't
ligate. I don't know why is that; perhaps Arabic typesetting experts
decided these should not ligate?
> I must admit I'm having trouble laying my hand on a font which
> does these ligatures.
Try the Arabic Typesetting font, there I see on Windows 10 that the
first 2 characters look like U+FCCA.
IOW, this is a font issue, not an Emacs or HarfBuzz issue.
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-18 22:20 bug#20140: 24.4; M17n shaper output rejected Richard Wordingham
2015-03-19 3:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-21 8:33 ` K. Handa
2015-03-21 17:20 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2015-03-21 17:58 ` Richard Wordingham
2015-03-21 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-03-25 14:25 ` K. Handa
2015-03-25 21:45 ` Richard Wordingham
2015-04-05 19:48 ` Richard Wordingham
2022-02-03 21:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-04 7:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-05 22:52 ` Richard Wordingham via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-06 8:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-06 22:09 ` Richard Wordingham via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-07 14:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-07 23:38 ` Richard Wordingham via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2022-02-12 18:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-13 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-13 20:53 ` Richard Wordingham via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-14 13:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-14 22:14 ` Richard Wordingham via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-15 1:27 ` Richard Wordingham via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-16 15:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-16 15:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-16 15:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-13 19:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-13 21:11 ` Richard Wordingham via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-14 13:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-14 23:26 ` Richard Wordingham via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-15 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-15 21:06 ` Richard Wordingham via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-16 13:15 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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