bug#17874: 24.3.92; Incorrectly isolated ع in علی

[penthief]

On 2014-06-29 19:32, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 13:30:36 +0100
> > From: penthief <penthief@SDF.ORG>
> >
> > The following should display differently, as in 24.3.1.
> > A.  ع ل ی - these are the "isolated" types.
> > B.  علی  - this is a final, medial and initial type.
> > C.  عل ی‎ - the isolated ی should be joined when the space is removed.
> > This is the bug demonstrated.
> >
> > 0. Start emacs: $ emacs -Q
> > 1. Output علی with a bold face in the appropriate font:
> > (progn
> >    (setq buffer-face-mode-face '(:family  "DejaVu Sans Mono"
> > :alternate-families  "Monaco" :height 100))
> >    (buffer-face-mode)
> >    (buffer-face-set 'bold)
> >    (newline)
> >    (insert " علی"))
> >
> >   علی
> >
> > 2. Change to a regular face:
> > (buffer-face-set 'default)
> >   علی
> >
> > What happens is ی (ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH) switches from the final to
> > the isolated type.
>
> I cannot reproduce this on MS-Windows.  It works for me correctly both
> in Emacs 24.3 and in the emacs-24 branch as of r117323.  Could be
> libotf-specific.  Are you sure nothing changed in libotf and/or
> m17n-flt libraries between the time you built v24.3 and now?

After building 24.3 rather than relying on the binary provided by my 
distro I now see the issue in both versions, so I think you are right to 
say the problem is with one of the dependencies, rather than with Emacs.

Perhaps I can find a way to reproduce an issue on libotf / m17n-flt 
separately and raise it in the appropriate place.

Thanks,
Matt