7. C-u C-x = --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- position: 146 of 148 (98%), column: 0 character: س‎ (displayed as س‎) (codepoint 1587, #o3063, #x633) charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646)) code point in charset: 0x0633 script: arabic syntax: w which means: word category: .:Base, R:Right-to-left (strong), b:Arabic to input: type "s" with arabic input method buffer code: #xD8 #xB3 file code: #xD8 #xB3 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix) display: composed to form "سِّ" (see below) Composed with the following character(s) "ِّ" using this font: xfthb:-PfEd-DejaVu Sans-normal-normal-semicondensed-*-26-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1 by these glyphs: [0 2 1616 6022 0 2 10 27 -15 [1 5 0]] [0 2 1617 1377 29 1 27 10 7 nil] Character code properties: customize what to show name: ARABIC LETTER SEEN general-category: Lo (Letter, Other) decomposition: (1587) ('س') There are text properties here: fontified t --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- My Emacs version details follow. HTH, -- Basil In GNU Emacs 27.1.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2020-08-13 built on tabos Repository revision: 69568674b3bb5b5f65f2c1342aded205a00f696a Repository branch: emacs-27 Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12008000 System Description: Debian GNU/Linux bullseye/sid Configured using: 'configure 'CC=ccache gcc' 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3 -ggdb -gdwarf-4' --config-cache --prefix=/home/blc/.local --program-suffix=27 --enable-checking=yes,glyphs --enable-check-lisp-object-type --with-x-toolkit=lucid --with-file-notification=yes --with-x' Configured features: XAW3D XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY INOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS LUCID X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS LIBSYSTEMD JSON PDUMPER LCMS2 GMP Important settings: value of $LANG: en_IE.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo version 1.16.0, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2020-08-18 built on tabos Repository revision: 92ec47981acd353658782ce2e094e9f270d8bd8d Repository branch: master Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12008000 System Description: Debian GNU/Linux bullseye/sid Configured using: 'configure 'CC=ccache gcc' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -march=native' --config-cache --prefix=/home/blc/.local --with-x-toolkit=lucid --with-file-notification=yes --with-x' Configured features: XAW3D XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG CAIRO SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY INOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ M17N_FLT LIBOTF ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS LUCID X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS LIBSYSTEMD JSON PDUMPER LCMS2