From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: otf ligature rendering support? Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 13:22:13 +0200 Message-ID: <83lhlk9kii.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83tx099ofu.fsf@gnu.org> <83ppax9ndy.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1420284156 16945 80.91.229.3 (3 Jan 2015 11:22:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 11:22:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 03 12:22:29 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7Mmr-0002ge-5Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Jan 2015 12:22:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54042 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7Mmq-00031g-Es for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Jan 2015 06:22:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58358) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7Mmf-00031b-Hf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jan 2015 06:22:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7Mmc-0006HK-D5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jan 2015 06:22:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout28.012.net.il ([80.179.55.184]:54336) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7Mmc-0006HB-5H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jan 2015 06:22:14 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout28.012.net.il by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NHL00C00L5NW900@mtaout28.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jan 2015 13:20:06 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NHL00E49M5I2820@mtaout28.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jan 2015 13:20:06 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.184 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:101862 Archived-At: > From: Yuri D'Elia > Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 11:44:25 +0100 > > OTF ligatures instead are glypt replacement tables which are provided > for a sequence of characters in the font itself. This is mostly needed > to improve the rendering for languages such as arabic. But then the OTF font driver should tell Emacs about this situation. Is your Emacs compiled with libotf and libm17n-flt? That's how Emacs supports Arabic and other complex scripts. Do you see Arabic ligature shaping when Emacs displays Arabic text?