From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: dr.khaled.hosny@gmail.com, behdad@behdad.org, 35721@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35721: 27.0.50; Strange Arabic shaping behavior
Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 20:07:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9y5q704.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83woipbnih.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 17 May 2019 09:31:18 +0300")
close 35721
quit
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
>> Cc: Khaled Hosny <dr.khaled.hosny@gmail.com>, <behdad@behdad.org>, <handa@gnu.org>, <35721@debbugs.gnu.org>
>> Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 21:54:10 +0100
>>
>> The issue that prompted this report, however, is the alternating
>> toggling of certain character compositions while typing in a separate
>> part of the buffer (steps 9 and 10 in the OP), where no face change is
>> involved. I'm sorry for not making this clearer from the outset.
>>
>> If you think this is unsurprising behaviour given the display engine's
>> current implementation, I don't mind if you close this issue.
>
> I'm quite sure it is the result of how the display of complex scripts
> is implemented. However, ...
>
>> Otherwise, perhaps either this issue can be retitled, or I can submit a
>> new issue focussing only on that part of the OP.
>
> ... I think it would be best to file a new bug report, which is _only_
> about the above-mentioned alternations in display of composed
> characters, with specific examples only for that issue. Then these
> examples could be analyzed, and either (1) we find some bug that will
> then be fixed, or (2) we conclude that these are artifacts of the
> current implementation of the display engine, and make this a wishlist
> bug report.
Filed as bug#35811[1], so I'm closing this report.
[1]: https://debbugs.gnu.org/35811
Thanks,
--
Basil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-20 19:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-13 22:09 bug#35721: 27.0.50; Strange Arabic shaping behavior Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-05-14 15:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-14 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-15 23:02 ` Behdad Esfahbod
2019-05-16 13:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-16 13:45 ` Khaled Hosny
2019-05-16 14:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-16 14:20 ` Khaled Hosny
2019-05-16 14:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-16 20:54 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-05-17 6:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-20 19:07 ` Basil L. Contovounesios [this message]
2019-05-16 20:47 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
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