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bug#11860: 24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appea
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#11860: 24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear |
Date: |
Thu, 06 Sep 2012 13:47:54 +0300 |
> Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 18:56:47 +0900
> From: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>
> Cc: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>,
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
> Kenichi Handa <handa@gnu.org>,
> 11860@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > There are also in linux problems with some fonts for arabic, for
> > example: KacstNaskh have only one form for every arabic letter! But
> > it works with the many fonts as Arial, Tholoth, DejaVu and Metal,
> > which my linux machine uses by default.
>
> Thanks. I also tried myself with Ubuntu 12.04 by installing Arial
> using the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package. It seems to install a
> different version of the Arial font (2.82) than what's bundled with OS
> X 10.8 (5.01.2x). The result is also different from what I showed
> before on OS X, but still doesn't look right unlike yours (see the
> attached screenshot).
Note that the Y-OFF value is zero in your snapshot, while it is 9 in
Steffan's one. That's the immediate reason for the different display,
I think. The question is, why that difference happens. Perhaps
Handa-san could help us understand that.
- bug#11860: 24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear, (continued)
- bug#11860: 24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/09/01
- bug#11860: 24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear, Steffan, 2012/09/03
- bug#11860: 24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear, Steffan, 2012/09/03
- bug#11860: 24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear, Steffan, 2012/09/03
- bug#11860: 24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear, Steffan, 2012/09/06
- bug#11860: 24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear, Steffan, 2012/09/06
- bug#11860: 24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu, 2012/09/09
- bug#11860: 24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear, Kenichi Handa, 2012/09/11
- bug#11860: 24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/09/11
- bug#11860: 24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear, Kenichi Handa, 2012/09/12
- bug#11860: 24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/09/12
- bug#11860: 24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear, Kenichi Handa, 2012/09/13
- bug#11860: 24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/09/13
- bug#11860: 24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear, Kenichi Handa, 2012/09/13
- bug#11860: 24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear, Kenichi Handa, 2012/09/16