From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Kai Ma <justksqsf@gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 55319@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55319: 28.1.50; Abugida not rendered correctly (MacOS)
Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 10:10:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgjn41db.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <052FC289-9179-4B2D-AE52-2D688410162C@gmail.com> (Kai Ma's message of "Wed, 11 May 2022 23:43:36 +0800")
>>>>> On Wed, 11 May 2022 23:43:36 +0800, Kai Ma <justksqsf@gmail.com> said:
>> On May 9, 2022, at 10:38, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org <mailto:eliz@gnu.org>> wrote:
>>
>> Emacs doesn't discover composition rules. The composition rules are
>> part of the Emacs code, see the various *.el files in lisp/language/
>> directory. Some of these composition rules are derived automatically
>> from character properties, see composite.el and characters.el (which
>> cannot happen without Emacs knowing up-front about the properties).
Kai> Thanks for this. I didn’t know Emacs needed to manually compose characters.
Kai> Feel free to close this report, since it is due to my misunderstanding, not a real problem nor a real “wishlist”.
Kai> BTW,
Kai> I did try to follow language/*.el, and come with up the following code:
Kai> (let* ((c "[\uED80-\uED9F]\\|\uEDAA\\|\uEDAB”) ; constant
ie: "[\uED80-\uED9F\uEDAA\uEDAB]”
Kai> (v "[\uEDA0-\uEDA9]”) ; vowel
Kai> (cv (concat v c)))
You've called this 'cv', but itʼs actually 'vc'.
Kai> (set-char-table-range
Kai> composition-function-table '(#xeda0 . #xeda9)
Kai> (list
Kai> (vector cv 1 #'zbalermorna-shape-gstring)
Kai> [nil 0 font-shape-gstring])))
Youʼre looking back from vowels, it might be easier to add entries for
the consonants and look forward.
Kai> (defun zbalermorna-shape-gstring (gstring direction)
Kai> (message "shape %s" gstring) ; debugging
Kai> gstring)
Kai> But it doesn’t work as expected. For example, “ka” should be
Kai> composed, but the behavior here is “a” itself is composed,
Kai> and when the first rule is matched, only the consonant “k” is
Kai> sent to font-shape-gstring: only “k” is in the header.
Kai> Have you any pointers? Thanks!
I think if you fix 'cv' this will work.
Robert
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-12 8:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-08 11:45 bug#55319: 28.1.50; Abugida not rendered correctly (MacOS) Kai Ma
2022-05-08 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-09 1:43 ` Kai Ma
2022-05-09 2:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-11 15:43 ` Kai Ma
2022-05-11 16:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-12 8:10 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2022-05-12 8:26 ` Kai Ma
2022-05-12 8:36 ` Robert Pluim
2022-05-12 9:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-12 9:42 ` Robert Pluim
2022-05-12 9:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
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