From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#11075: 24.0.94; Arabic character composition Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:06:27 +0200 Message-ID: <83aa37uu0c.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20120323154400.GA47762@pc201.uni-germanistik.gwdg.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1332522449 25555 80.91.229.3 (23 Mar 2012 17:07:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:07:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 11075@debbugs.gnu.org To: Joost Kremers Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 23 18:07:28 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SB7xT-0003sV-QW for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:07:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56796 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SB7xT-0006o5-1A for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:07:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34419) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SB7xK-0006Rs-IW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:07:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SB7xG-0001Ex-7w for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:07:14 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:57067) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SB7xF-0001Ef-Se for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:07:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SB8R8-0006Qq-AU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:38:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:38:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 11075 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 11075-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B11075.133252425624690 (code B ref 11075); Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:38:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 11075) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Mar 2012 17:37:36 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35666 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SB8Qe-0006Q6-3T for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:37:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:34340) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SB8QO-0006Pk-GF for 11075@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:37:31 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M1C00H00KPZOR00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for 11075@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:06:21 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.241.151]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M1C00HWDKUKKT80@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:06:21 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <20120323154400.GA47762@pc201.uni-germanistik.gwdg.de> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:58026 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:44:01 +0100 > From: Joost Kremers > > Although Emacs 24 has bidi support (yay!), character composition for Arabic > does not work for me on OS X. (In the Arabic script, each character has > different forms depending on its position in the word: beginning, middle or > end. These shapes should be selected automatically by the software, but > they are not.) 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? > On Linux, Emacs needs to be compiled with libotf in order to provide the > necessary character composition, which then works perfectly. Can't libotf be compiled on OS X?