describe-char for shin (character at point in shin.png) provides glyph info as belonging to DejaVuSans. However, the actual glyph in DejaVuSans is different as shown in ftview.png.
position: 4 of 11 (27%), column: 4
character: ש (displayed as ש) (codepoint 1513, #o2751, #x5e9)
charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646))
code point in charset: 0x05E9
script: hebrew
syntax: w which means: word
category: .:Base, R:Right-to-left (strong)
to input: type "C-x 8 RET 5e9" or "C-x 8 RET HEBREW LETTER SHIN"
buffer code: #xD7 #xA9
file code: not encodable by coding system iso-latin-1-unix
display: composed to form "שָׁ" (see below)
Composed with the following character(s) "ָׁ" using this font:
ftcrhb:-PfEd-DejaVu Sans-bold-oblique-normal-*-45-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1
by these glyphs:
[0 2 1464 1305 0 4 21 0 10 nil]
[0 2 1473 1314 0 36 42 33 -28 nil]
[0 2 1513 1344 34 4 39 25 0 nil]
Character code properties: customize what to show
name: HEBREW LETTER SHIN
general-category: Lo (Letter, Other)
decomposition: (1513) ('ש')
There are text properties here:
face (:weight bold :slant oblique)
shin.png
ftview.png