From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#50951: Fwd: bug#50951: 28.0.50; Urdu text is not displayed correctly Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2021 18:09:59 +0300 Message-ID: <83a6jrbgzc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83mtnsc63i.fsf@gnu.org> <83sfxjbox7.fsf@gnu.org> <83mtnrbmk4.fsf@gnu.org> <83fstjbhwe.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1883"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 50951@debbugs.gnu.org To: Rah Guzar Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 02 17:11:53 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mWgg5-0000LT-5Q for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2021 17:11:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46600 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mWgg3-0000iQ-M6 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2021 11:11:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54076) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mWgfG-0007yV-N0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2021 11:11:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:48720) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mWgfG-0004eX-EI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2021 11:11:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mWgfG-0005rC-9b for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2021 11:11:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2021 15:11:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 50951 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 50951-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B50951.163318742722455 (code B ref 50951); Sat, 02 Oct 2021 15:11:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 50951) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Oct 2021 15:10:27 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60263 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mWgeh-0005q6-HF for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2021 11:10:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:48866) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1mWgef-0005pl-KP for 50951@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2021 11:10:26 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54874) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mWgea-00046b-3m; Sat, 02 Oct 2021 11:10:20 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4459 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mWgeV-00008t-Rc; Sat, 02 Oct 2021 11:10:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Rah Guzar on Sat, 2 Oct 2021 17:05:24 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:216170 Archived-At: > From: Rah Guzar > Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2021 17:05:24 +0200 > > If you set bidi-display-reordering to a nil value, does the display > become better or worse? > > Setting it to nil completely garbles the text. This I what I see afterwards > reordering-nil.png OK, that's what I expected. It was a stab in the dark. > By the way, the problem of size dependent misplacement happens with another Urdu font > Urdu_Emad_Nastaliq that doesn't rely on extensive composition which I tried. I'm afraid this is where I must stop trying to help investigating this issue, as I'm long out of my depth in this area. It sounds like some tricky issue with the fonts, but maybe something else is at work here, e.g., with Cairo display or something. But I'm just guessing at this point, sorry.