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[emacs-bidi] Re: Arabic support
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David Kastrup |
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[emacs-bidi] Re: Arabic support |
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Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:18:11 +0200 |
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Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:00:02 +0900
>>
>> > If so, auto-composition-mode cannot be turned off for scripts that
>> > need this kind of "grouped shaping" without degrading the presentation
>> > of these scripts to the point of illegibility?
>>
>> Yes. And auto-composition-mode cannot be turned off for any
>> scripts that it is not enough to display glyphs
>> corresponding to characters; they are all Indics, some East
>> Asians, Arabic, Hebrew, etc.
>
> Are you sure Hebrew belongs to this list? What Hebrew characters need
> to be shaped together, but still displayed as separate glyphs (as
> opposed to the diacriticals which are composed into the same glyph
> with the base character)?
I'd think that the letter combinations tsvey vovn וו and tsvey yudn יי
(in Yiddish likely represented with their own characters װ and ײ, also
of interest ױ) might call for common shaping in more sophisticated
fonts.
But I have no actual clue.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Re: Arabic support, (continued)
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Re: Arabic support, Kenichi Handa, 2010/09/01
- [emacs-bidi] Re: Arabic support, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/01
- [emacs-bidi] Re: Arabic support, Kenichi Handa, 2010/09/02
- [emacs-bidi] Re: Arabic support, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/02
- [emacs-bidi] Re: Arabic support, Kenichi Handa, 2010/09/02
- [emacs-bidi] Re: Arabic support, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/03
- [emacs-bidi] Re: Arabic support,
David Kastrup <=
- [emacs-bidi] Re: Arabic support, Kenichi Handa, 2010/09/03
- [emacs-bidi] Re: Arabic support, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/03
- [emacs-bidi] Re: Arabic support, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/03
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Re: Arabic support, Amit Aronovitch, 2010/09/03
- Re: [emacs-bidi] Re: Arabic support, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/03
- [emacs-bidi] Re: Arabic support, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/04
- [emacs-bidi] Re: Arabic support, Kenichi Handa, 2010/09/06
- [emacs-bidi] Re: Arabic support, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/04
RE: [emacs-bidi] Re: Arabic support, 大嶋 俊祐, 2010/09/02