Re: How to get the connected forms of Syriac Letters?

[Fabian Rieger <cjkv@freenet.de>]

Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote
 > I use something like this in my .emacs with Emacs 24.4.1 on Debian
 > Jessie:
 >
 >     ;; Tell Emacs to actually use shaping for Syriac (via m17n).
 >     ;; \u0700-\u074F: Syriac
 >     ;; \u0640: TATWEEL
 >     ;; \u200D: ZWJ
 >     (set-char-table-range
 >      composition-function-table
 >      '(?\u0700 . ?\u074F)
 >      (list ["[\u0700-\u074F\u0640\u200D]+" 0 font-shape-gstring]))
 >
 >     (defun benny-setup-fonts (frame)
 >       (set-fontset-font t (?\u0700 . ?\u074F) "Serto Mardin 16" frame))
 >
 >     ;; Run font setup whenever a new frame is constructed.
 >     (add-to-list 'after-make-frame-functions 'benny-setup-fonts)
 >
 >     ;; Run font setup now if we already have a frame.
 >     (let ((frame (selected-frame)))
 >       (if frame (benny-setup-fonts frame)))

Hi Benny,

that solved the problem. I just had to replace

    (set-fontset-font t (?\u0700 . ?\u074F) ...

with

    (set-fontset-font t (cons (decode-char 'ucs ?\x0700)
  			     (decode-char 'ucs ?\x074F) ...

(The reason for this maybe I'll try to understand next week ...)
and now Syriac really looks fine.

Thanks for your help.

Fabian