From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#24724: 25.1; Arabic Printing Problem Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 12:21:23 +0200 Message-ID: <83o8xmd5y4.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87r37d1vc6.fsf@fcih.net> <83eg3dwva7.fsf@gnu.org> <87a8e18tm7.fsf@fcih.net> <83bmyhwtje.fsf@gnu.org> <8760op8qvu.fsf@fcih.net> <834m48x41u.fsf@gnu.org> <8360omu8fp.fsf@gnu.org> <87v9rvw0m8.fsf@marxist.se> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="80606"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 24724@debbugs.gnu.org, wyousef@fcih.net To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 08 11:22:19 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iT1PG-000Kin-I0 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Nov 2019 11:22:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51690 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iT1PE-00036Z-Q5 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Nov 2019 05:22:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47834) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iT1P4-00031G-Al for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Nov 2019 05:22:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iT1P2-0007zr-Ac for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Nov 2019 05:22:06 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:35857) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iT1P0-0007zA-P1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Nov 2019 05:22:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iT1P0-0007C6-Ik for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Nov 2019 05:22:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 10:22:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 24724 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 24724-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B24724.157320850527631 (code B ref 24724); Fri, 08 Nov 2019 10:22:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 24724) by debbugs.gnu.org; 8 Nov 2019 10:21:45 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44678 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iT1Oi-0007Ba-Jp for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 08 Nov 2019 05:21:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:38647) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iT1Of-0007BN-QT for 24724@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 08 Nov 2019 05:21:43 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34547) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iT1Oa-0007rq-A6; Fri, 08 Nov 2019 05:21:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2823 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iT1OZ-0008Dv-80; Fri, 08 Nov 2019 05:21:35 -0500 In-reply-to: <87v9rvw0m8.fsf@marxist.se> (message from Stefan Kangas on Fri, 08 Nov 2019 03:41:35 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:171187 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Kangas > Cc: Waleed Yousef , 24724@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 03:41:35 +0100 > > If I read this thread correctly, the solution here is to use a recent > version of GhostScript. In other words, this is not a bug in Emacs. > > Or is there anything else to do here? It might be a missing feature, if PostScript supports commands to tell the printer to reorder text. But I don't know enough about PostScript to tell whether this is so, and I never saw any PostScript output from any program that prints R2L script, so I have no idea how this is done by programs, Like LibreOffice, which reportedly do support printing of such text. If someone knows about that, I'm all ears.