From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: tomas@tuxteam.de Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Arabic font for gnu emacs Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:30:25 +0100 Message-ID: <20100228063025.GA24197@tomas> References: <9eeaa8101002252234l43e989fcwda58310319d1517c@mail.gmail.com> <8842b49a-0d41-481d-bc10-538d3970b531@m35g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <326F57F5-7956-4E88-BCF8-BE3DE9FC7DF7@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267338563 8105 80.91.229.12 (28 Feb 2010 06:29:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 06:29:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Jason Rumney To: Peter Dyballa Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 28 07:29:18 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NlceT-0007Oh-I9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:29:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50923 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NlceS-0004RN-RP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:29:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nlcdt-0004RI-Vf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:28:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58838 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nlcds-0004RA-Ri for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:28:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nlcds-0000yw-2b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:28:40 -0500 Original-Received: from alextrapp1.equinoxe.de ([217.22.192.104]:42916 helo=www.elogos.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nlcdr-0000yr-Si for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:28:40 -0500 Original-Received: by www.elogos.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 61A6C90056; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:30:25 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <326F57F5-7956-4E88-BCF8-BE3DE9FC7DF7@Web.DE> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:72229 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:36:24AM +0100, Peter Dyballa wrote: [...] > You're right, Jason! Arabic is different from being just another=20 > proportional script. Many characters are not typed by the same glyphs i= n=20 > every possible place of a word. Many characters change their shape when= =20 > used as the first (initial) character, its last (final) character, or=20 > 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 - -- tom=C3=A1s -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFLig2BBcgs9XrR2kYRAgkJAJ9KtEAN8+Von87Ko0mTtV/qh8XyRACdElJn GomwihTsa+7FVjQx8NzPWfg=3D =3DXVT1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----