Re: Arabic font for gnu emacs

[tomas]

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On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:36:24AM +0100, Peter Dyballa wrote:

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> You're right, Jason! Arabic is different from being just another 
> proportional script. Many characters are not typed by the same glyphs in 
> every possible place of a word. Many characters change their shape when 
> used as the first (initial) character, its last (final) character, or 
> somewhere in-between [...]

Yes, but as has been mentioned in this thread, Emacs handles that
already (e.g. in Indic fonts). But alas, not in left-to-right mode.

The best we can do now is to support Eli as well as we can in his
Herculean task.

Regards
- -- tomás
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