From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Fr Ml <fr_ml@t-online.de>
Cc: 44528@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44528: New bidi problems with outline-mode (Arabic, Hebrew,..)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 16:30:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83imaazlz8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3608bf3c-44b2-2752-bad4-49440a43d5ea@t-online.de> (message from Fr Ml on Thu, 12 Nov 2020 08:14:30 +0100)
> Cc: 44528@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Fr Ml <fr_ml@t-online.de>
> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 08:14:30 +0100
>
> in the INSTALL instruction of Emacs we read:
> (On GNU and Unix systems, Emacs needs the optional libraries "m17n-db",
> "libm17n-flt", "libotf" to correctly display such complex scripts as
> Indic and Khmer, and also for scripts that require Arabic shaping
> support (Arabic and Farsi).)
>
> But I noticed that libm17n-flt isn't installed and it's not a package in the repository of Archlinux . I didn't need
> to install it before.
>
> Can it be the problem? Or is it included in the other packages (m17n-db, libotf)?
This text is outdated: we nowadays prefer HarfBuzz, if available, as
our shaping engine. Is your build using HarfBuzz? You can tell by
looking at the value of the variable 'system-configuration-features'.
If your build doesn't use HarfBuzz, I suggest to install one that
does.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-12 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-03 16:31 New bidi problems with org-mode (Arabic, Hebrew,..) Fr Ml
2020-11-06 17:22 ` Samim Pezeshki
[not found] ` <00134ef6-a66a-ea1b-1531-f010c147cee9@t-online.de>
2020-11-07 20:34 ` Samim Pezeshki
2020-11-09 6:10 ` bug#44528: New bidi problems with outline-mode " Fr Ml
2020-11-09 15:55 ` bug#44528: New bidi problems with outline-mode (Arabic, Hebrew, ..) Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <d22c0b88-4e66-2521-6afd-7acb564286fa@t-online.de>
2020-11-09 18:24 ` bug#44528: New bidi problems with outline-mode (Arabic, Hebrew,..) Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-12 7:14 ` Fr Ml
2020-11-12 14:30 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-11-12 16:00 ` Fr Ml
2020-11-17 10:04 ` Fr Ml
2020-11-17 15:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-18 10:58 ` Fr Ml
2020-11-18 15:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-13 10:26 ` bug#44528: New bidi problems with outline-mode (Arabic, Hebrew, ..) Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-03-13 20:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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