describe-char for shin (character at point in shin.png) provides glyph info
as belonging to DejaVuSans. However, the actual glyph in DejaVuSans is
different as shown in ftview.png.

             position: 4 of 11 (27%), column: 4
            character: ש‎ (displayed as ש‎) (codepoint 1513, #o2751, #x5e9)
              charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
code point in charset: 0x05E9
               script: hebrew
               syntax: w which means: word
             category: .:Base, R:Right-to-left (strong)
             to input: type "C-x 8 RET 5e9" or "C-x 8 RET HEBREW LETTER
SHIN"
          buffer code: #xD7 #xA9
            file code: not encodable by coding system iso-latin-1-unix
              display: composed to form "שָׁ" (see below)

Composed with the following character(s) "ָׁ" using this font:
  *ftcrhb:-PfEd-DejaVu Sans-bold-oblique-normal-*-45-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1*
by these glyphs:
  [0 2 1464 1305 0 4 21 0 10 nil]
  [0 2 1473 1314 0 36 42 33 -28 nil]
  [0 2 1513 1344 34 4 39 25 0 nil]

Character code properties: customize what to show
  name: HEBREW LETTER SHIN
  general-category: Lo (Letter, Other)
  decomposition: (1513) ('ש')

There are text properties here:
  face                 (:weight bold :slant oblique)