bug#21846: 25.0.50; emacs hebrew script bidi nikud rendering bug

[Mark David]

Does the following give the answer?


On 11/7/15, 12:59 AM, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>So the problem is likely in the shaping engine used to build Emacs.
>I'm CC'ing Handa-san who is our expert on complex text layout support.
>What is the version of libotf, m17n-db, and libm17n-flt libraries used
>by Emacs on your system?  Perhaps upgrading to the latest versions of
>those libraries will fix the problem.

mhd:/home/mhd/emacs$ dpkg -l "*libotf*"
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                      Version           Architecture      Description
+++-=========================-=================-=================-========================================================
ii  libotf-dev:amd64          0.9.13-1ubuntu1   amd64             Library for 
handling OpenType Font - development
ii  libotf0:amd64             0.9.13-1ubuntu1   amd64             Library for 
handling OpenType Font - runtime
mhd:/home/mhd/emacs$ dpkg -l "*m17*"
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                      Version           Architecture      Description
+++-=========================-=================-=================-========================================================
ii  libm17n-0                 1.6.4-2ubuntu1    amd64             multilingual 
text processing library - runtime
ii  libm17n-dev               1.6.4-2ubuntu1    amd64             multilingual 
text processing library - development
ii  m17n-contrib              1.1.14-1          all               multilingual 
text processing library - contributed datab
ii  m17n-db                   1.6.4-1           all               multilingual 
text processing library - database
ii  m17n-docs                 1.6.2-2           all               multilingual 
text processing library - documents



If not, can someone give hints how to supply the desired info?
Also hints please on how to upgrade to the latest versions?

Thanks,

Mark