[emacs-bidi] Re: Arabic support

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:00:02 +0900
>> 
>> > If so, auto-composition-mode cannot be turned off for scripts that
>> > need this kind of "grouped shaping" without degrading the presentation
>> > of these scripts to the point of illegibility?
>> 
>> Yes.  And auto-composition-mode cannot be turned off for any
>> scripts that it is not enough to display glyphs
>> corresponding to characters; they are all Indics, some East
>> Asians, Arabic, Hebrew, etc.
>
> Are you sure Hebrew belongs to this list?  What Hebrew characters need
> to be shaped together, but still displayed as separate glyphs (as
> opposed to the diacriticals which are composed into the same glyph
> with the base character)?

I'd think that the letter combinations tsvey vovn וו and tsvey yudn יי
(in Yiddish likely represented with their own characters װ and ײ, also
of interest ױ) might call for common shaping in more sophisticated
fonts.

But I have no actual clue.

-- 
David Kastrup