From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
Cc: 11075@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11075: 24.0.94; Arabic character composition
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:06:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83aa37uu0c.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120323154400.GA47762@pc201.uni-germanistik.gwdg.de>
> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:44:01 +0100
> From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
>
> Although Emacs 24 has bidi support (yay!), character composition for Arabic
> does not work for me on OS X. (In the Arabic script, each character has
> different forms depending on its position in the word: beginning, middle or
> end. These shapes should be selected automatically by the software, but
> they are not.)
Unless you build Emacs with a library that supports Arabic shaping,
you won't be able to have it. Does OS X offer such a library?
> On Linux, Emacs needs to be compiled with libotf in order to provide the
> necessary character composition, which then works perfectly.
Can't libotf be compiled on OS X?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-23 17:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-23 15:44 bug#11075: 24.0.94; Arabic character composition Joost Kremers
2012-03-23 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-03-23 18:23 ` Joost Kremers
2012-03-23 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-27 14:33 ` Joost Kremers
2012-03-27 18:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-03 2:27 ` Kenichi Handa
2012-04-03 9:12 ` Joost Kremers
2012-04-02 7:21 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2012-04-02 7:44 ` Joost Kremers
2012-04-04 0:22 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2017-09-25 14:01 ` Alan Third
2017-09-25 14:17 ` John Wiegley
2017-09-25 16:51 ` Alan Third
2019-09-20 22:45 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-09-21 6:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-22 11:54 ` Alan Third
2019-09-22 20:23 ` mituharu
2019-09-23 18:40 ` Alan Third
2019-09-24 6:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-27 21:39 ` Alan Third
2019-09-28 6:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
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