bug#11860: 24.1; Arabic - Harakat (diacritics, short vowels) don't appear

[Stefan Kangas]

Steffan <smias@yandex.ru> writes:

> Hello,
>
> the diacritics characters (harakat, short vowels of arabic) don't appear in 
> windows. (In linux it works very fine)
>
> These are the unicode names:
> U+064B (1611) ‏ً‎     Arabisches Fathatan     ARABIC FATHATAN
> U+064C (1612) ‏ٌ‎     Arabisches Dammatan     ARABIC DAMMATAN
> U+064D (1613) ‏ٍ‎     Arabisches Kasratan     ARABIC KASRATAN
> U+064E (1614) ‏َ‎     Arabisches Fatha        ARABIC FATHA
> U+064F (1615) ‏ُ‎     Arabisches Damma        ARABIC DAMMA
> U+0650 (1616) ‏ِ‎     Arabisches Kasra        ARABIC KASRA
> U+0651 (1617) ‏ّ‎     Arabisches Schadda      ARABIC SHADDA
> U+0652 (1618) ‏ْ‎     Arabisches Sukun        ARABIC SUKUN
>
> All these characters doesn't appear. Or I can see them shortly if the cursor 
> is on one of them.
>
> I've tried many fonts, but it doesn't work. These special characters are in 
> the file, emacs don't loose them. If I copy the text to another editor, I can 
> see them.
>
> Should I download other packages?

(That was 8 years ago.)

Do you still see this on a recent version of Emacs, such as the recently
released version 27.1?

Would this have been fixed by the recent addition of harfbuzz support?

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas