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Re: [emacs-bidi] missing fonts for bidi Emacs on cygwin
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [emacs-bidi] missing fonts for bidi Emacs on cygwin |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Oct 2011 02:32:35 -0400 |
> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:45:23 +0900
> From: "Martin J. Dürst" <address@hidden>
> CC: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden
>
> Arabic letters are now shown, in the right RTL order. But they are
> not connected.
As Handa-san points out, you need to install additional libraries and
reconfigure and rebuild Emacs with them, to get Arabic shaping to
work.
> On the other hand, these work fine in the Windows version.
The native Windows version uses a different shaping engine, called
Uniscribe. That engine supports all the features Emacs needs,
including Arabic shaping, in a single DLL which comes with the OS. I
guess no one made the Cygwin port of X use Uniscribe, which is why you
need those additional libraries that provide an equivalent
functionality on Posix systems.
- Re: [emacs-bidi] missing fonts for bidi Emacs on cygwin, (continued)
- Re: [emacs-bidi] missing fonts for bidi Emacs on cygwin, mhibti, 2011/10/10
- Re: [emacs-bidi] missing fonts for bidi Emacs on cygwin, Martin J. Dürst, 2011/10/10
- Re: [emacs-bidi] missing fonts for bidi Emacs on cygwin, Kenichi Handa, 2011/10/10
- Re: [emacs-bidi] missing fonts for bidi Emacs on cygwin, Martin J. Dürst, 2011/10/11
- Re: [emacs-bidi] missing fonts for bidi Emacs on cygwin, Kenichi Handa, 2011/10/11
- Re: [emacs-bidi] missing fonts for bidi Emacs on cygwin, Martin J. Dürst, 2011/10/11
- Re: [emacs-bidi] missing fonts for bidi Emacs on cygwin, Martin J. Dürst, 2011/10/11
- Re: [emacs-bidi] missing fonts for bidi Emacs on cygwin, Kenichi Handa, 2011/10/11
- Re: [emacs-bidi] missing fonts for bidi Emacs on cygwin, Martin J. Dürst, 2011/10/31
- Re: [emacs-bidi] missing fonts for bidi Emacs on cygwin, Kenichi Handa, 2011/10/31
- Re: [emacs-bidi] missing fonts for bidi Emacs on cygwin,
Eli Zaretskii <=