bug#35721: 27.0.50; Strange Arabic shaping behavior

[Eli Zaretskii]

tags 35721 notabug
thanks

> Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 16:20:00 +0200
> From: Khaled Hosny <dr.khaled.hosny@gmail.com>
> Cc: behdad@behdad.org, contovob@tcd.ie, handa@gnu.org,
>       35721@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 05:08:47PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > The main point of this bug report is about the other part, though: how
> > sheen should be displayed when using DejaVu Sans Mono.
> 
> I don’t think there is a right answer here. Glyphs can have -ve right or
> left side bearings, so if the graphics context has no room on the either
> side then I think it is expected that the glyph would be truncated. This
> is not Arabic specific (e.g. italic f often have -ve right side
> bearing, in variable width fonts at least).

OK, thanks.

Basil, is it okay with you to close this bug, given these comments?