Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes: >> From: Kenichi Handa <[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] >> 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 _______________________________________________ emacs-bidi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-bidi
