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: How to get the connected forms of Syriac letters? Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 17:37:12 +0200 Message-ID: <83r3vzwqqf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8761dcv90q.fsf@justinian.turtle-trading.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418744275 9536 80.91.229.3 (16 Dec 2014 15:37:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 15:37:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 16 16:37:48 2014 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 1Y0uC3-0001GV-W9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 16:37:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45316 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0uC3-0002TJ-HC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 10:37:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49566) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0uBl-0002Qu-Sg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 10:37:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0uBf-0007TU-UD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 10:37:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout24.012.net.il ([80.179.55.180]:36728) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y0uBf-0007TL-N7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 10:37:23 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout24.012.net.il by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NGO00800LEMMO00@mtaout24.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 17:29:33 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NGO008EILP8HG10@mtaout24.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 17:29:33 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <8761dcv90q.fsf@justinian.turtle-trading.net> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.180 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:101603 Archived-At: > From: Benjamin Riefenstahl > Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 23:32:53 +0100 > > ;; 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])) Yes, this is missing from the basic Emacs setup, I will add it shortly. But why did you need to mention TATWEEL and ZWJ there? (And if ZWJ is needed, then why not ZWNJ as well?)