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From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Jason Rumney <jasonrumney@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Arabic font for gnu emacs
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:30:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100228063025.GA24197@tomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <326F57F5-7956-4E88-BCF8-BE3DE9FC7DF7@Web.DE>

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On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:36:24AM +0100, Peter Dyballa wrote:

[...]

> You're right, Jason! Arabic is different from being just another 
> proportional script. Many characters are not typed by the same glyphs in 
> every possible place of a word. Many characters change their shape when 
> used as the first (initial) character, its last (final) character, or 
> somewhere in-between [...]

Yes, but as has been mentioned in this thread, Emacs handles that
already (e.g. in Indic fonts). But alas, not in left-to-right mode.

The best we can do now is to support Eli as well as we can in his
Herculean task.

Regards
- -- tomás
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-28  6:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-26  6:34 Arabic font for gnu emacs 石田惣一
2010-02-26  9:35 ` Peter Dyballa
2010-02-26  9:40   ` 石田惣一
     [not found] ` <mailman.1924.1267177006.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-26 11:51   ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-26 12:12   ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-27 14:42     ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-27  4:01   ` Jason Rumney
2010-02-27 10:36     ` Peter Dyballa
2010-02-28  6:30       ` tomas [this message]
2010-02-28 16:37         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-01  6:48           ` tomas
     [not found] ` <06492382-7709-487E-8FCB-8CAFBD2DD4C7@mac.com>
2010-02-27  0:26   ` 石田惣一
2010-02-27 15:49     ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1988.1267285761.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-27 19:55       ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found] <mailman.1920.1267175843.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-26 11:52 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-27  1:50 ` Stefan Monnier

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