Re: emacs hebrew script bidi nikud rendering bugs

[Uwe Brauer]

    > The default font is not what matters.  You should find out which
    > font(s) is/are used to display the problematic character combinations.
    > Emacs cannot compose characters that are displayed by different fonts.
    > Use "C-u C-x =" to show the font for each character.

Out of curiosity, are all niqqud displayed correctly in your setting?


    -  First of all the ones which work
       for example aleph+qamats: I obtain



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| 
|                     position: 431 of 708 (61%), column: 12
|             character: א‎ (displayed as א‎) (codepoint 1488, #o2720, #x5d0)
|     preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
| code point in charset: 0x05D0
|                script: hebrew
|                syntax: w      which means: word
|              category: .:Base, R:Right-to-left (strong)
|              to input: type "C-x 8 RET 5d0" or "C-x 8 RET HEBREW LETTER ALEF"
|           buffer code: #xD7 #x90
|             file code: #xD7 #x90 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
|               display: composed to form "אָ" (see below)
| 
| Composed with the following character(s) "ָ" using this font:
|   xft:-unknown-DejaVu Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-19-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1
| by these glyphs:
|   [0 1 64303 4765 13 2 11 10 3 nil]
| 
| Character code properties: customize what to show
|   name: HEBREW LETTER ALEF
|   general-category: Lo (Letter, Other)
|   decomposition: (1488) ('א')
| 
| There are text properties here:
|   fontified            t
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    -  now to aleph+qubuts where qubuts is not displayed directly under
       the aleph. Cursor on the aleph

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| 
|              position: 464 of 708 (65%), column: 12
|             character: א‎ (displayed as א‎) (codepoint 1488, #o2720, #x5d0)
|     preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
| code point in charset: 0x05D0
|                script: hebrew
|                syntax: w      which means: word
|              category: .:Base, R:Right-to-left (strong)
|              to input: type "C-x 8 RET 5d0" or "C-x 8 RET HEBREW LETTER ALEF"
|           buffer code: #xD7 #x90
|             file code: #xD7 #x90 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
|               display: composed to form "אֻ" (see below)
| 
| Composed with the following character(s) "ֻ" using this font:
|   xft:-unknown-DejaVu Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-19-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1
| by these glyphs:
|   [0 1 1488 1316 13 2 11 10 0 nil]
|   [0 1 1467 1305 0 2 11 -2 5 nil]
| 
| Character code properties: customize what to show
|   name: HEBREW LETTER ALEF
|   general-category: Lo (Letter, Other)
|   decomposition: (1488) ('א')
| 
| There are text properties here:
|   fontified            t
| 
| [back]
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I fail to see the difference.