23.0.50; HELLO

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@freenet.de>]

Hello!

It looks as if the code for Tibetan greetings is incorrect. A few  
Emacsen of different versions can display the text, either in a  
windowing system or in a terminal emulation. And *all* cannot display  
it correctly. I am trying to copy first what is displayed in a  
terminal (example + second time):

	བཀྲ?་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས༎
	Tibetan (བོད་སྐ?ད་)               བཀྲ?་ 
ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས༎


The forth character from the left obviously is not right (and also in  
the comment the last but one). Something similiar I can see in  
windowing Emacsen, although they display instead of a question mark a  
generic symbol 'last resort'.

There seems to be also a problem with Arabic:

	Arabic (ةّيبرعلا)                مكيلع مالّسلا

Interestingly the parentheses in the right column is here in the copy  
an opening one in a Latin script. In terminal in GNU Emacs it's a  
closing one in a Latin script, and it obviously belongs to the left  
column. A similiar effect happens with Hebrew with the ``)´´  
parentheses.

In the "foreword" of non-ASCII examples the right-most text in the  
Middle/Near East line consists only of question marks ...

--
Greetings

   Pete

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