I'll be anxious to test any such changes!

Thanks,
Ron

On Mar 28, 12:41 am, björn <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2009/3/26 Ron Aaron:
>
>
>
> > The strange thing is that the fonts *do* have Hebrew characters, but
> > it may be
> > that they are not tagged in such a way that OS/X can extract the
> > correct
> > glyphs.  For example, the monospace font "Miriam Fixed" has Hebrew
> > characters,
> > as does "Courier New" (from MS) - but neither seems to be able to be
> > used in
> > MacVim for Hebrew, nor "Web Hebrew Monospace" nor "SBL Hebrew".  But
> > the
> > non-monospace "Ezra SIL" works, as does "David MF" and various others
> > (all
> > non-monospace :( )
>
> Yeah, I don't understand this either.  The Cocoa font system is very
> much like a black box (at least to me) -- it is hard to get any
> control over aspects such as font substitution.  There is probably
> some way to "massage" the font files to get this to work but I have no
> idea where you find information on this.
>
> >> It would be very helpful if you could send me a file on which you can
> >> reproduce all of these issues so that I can try it out myself.
>
> > I have a set of two files: one with just the base characters and one
> > with
> > combining (niqud) characters.  You can get the file here:
>
> >  http://ronware.org/vim-hebrew.zip
>
> Thanks, I see the problem now.  I am aware that composing characters
> are problematic and I am not sure how easy it will be to fix with the
> default and ATSUI renderers.  Still, I will take another look to
> refresh my memory (and it is good to have some example file to work on
> as a test).
>
> Failing that there is much more hope for the half-finished CoreText
> renderer I have yet to finish and push to the repo -- I am confident
> that I can get composing characters working properly with it.  So, I
> might take another look at that as well.  Anyway, I'll post again when
> I have something more to say on this.
>
> Björn
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