From: Benjamin Riefenstahl <b.riefenstahl@turtle-trading.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to get the connected forms of Syriac letters?
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 23:38:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h9wvcj9m.fsf@justinian.turtle-trading.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.16227.1418762647.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii writes:
>> > But why did you need to mention TATWEEL and ZWJ there? (And if ZWJ is
>> > needed, then why not ZWNJ as well?)
> But how is this related to the Syriac script?
Ah, I'm sorry, I thought that was understood.
Syriac (and Mandaic) are similar to Arabic script in type, i.e. cursive
scripts where characters adapt according to context ("shaping"). They
re-use the TATWEEL for justification, and also ZWJ and ZWNJ to force or
prevent shaping.
See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac_script> and
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandaic_script>.
Syriac script is supported by fonts, by libm17n and by Uniscribe.
Support for Mandaic script is just starting, although it has been in
Unicode for some years.
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2014-12-15 22:32 ` How to get the connected forms of Syriac letters? Benjamin Riefenstahl
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2014-12-18 1:26 ` How to get the connected forms of Syriac Letters? Stefan Monnier
2014-12-18 21:42 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2014-12-16 11:00 Fabian Rieger
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2014-12-15 21:12 How to get the connected forms of Syriac letters? Fabian Rieger
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