Comment 11 for bug 8254

Message-Id: <1095581753.1345.16.camel@localhost>
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 12:15:53 +0400
From: Mohammed Elzubeir <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Fwd: Re: [URGENT] Debian Installer: Bug#272136: countrychooser:
 db_go fails when choosing Arabic as language]

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From: Mohammed Elzubeir <email address hidden>
To: Documentation and Translation <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [URGENT] Debian Installer: Bug#272136: countrychooser: db_go f=
ails when choosing Arabic as language
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 12:11:41 +0400

On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 11:50, Christian Perrier wrote:

> Hmmm, diacritics indeed modify another character, right?
>=20
Not really. A diacritic like a 'SHADDA' for example, would be displayed
on top of a character's glyph. The result would "look" as if it's a
different character but it's not. In reality, what the shadda means is
the equivalent of repeating the character (e.g. alarabiYYa -- in Arabic,
instead of having two Y's you would have a Y and a shadda on top of it).

> This means that combining a character and a diacritic would give a
> different character. The combination is done by the shaping code and
> thus the final character is indeed not present in the original file,
> right?
>=20

No, the shaping code is not involved in this process. Shaping only
concerns itself with what glyph to use to represent a character,
depending on its position -- diacritics is out of its scope.

> If that is true, this means that the needed characters (the rsult of
> the combination of harakat and the original character) should be in
> the needed-characters/ar file as well probably as the standalone
> harakat.

Harakat are those guys U+064B - U+0652

>=20
> Could you complete the "ar" file I originally sent so that it includes
> harakat as well as combined characters (if I'm not wrong above) ?
>=20

Sure -- but first, I can't seem to figure out what that last character
is in that file. Can anyone tell me what it is? (looks very strange
LAM+ALEF with 'something' else there..)

Regards,
Mohammed Elzubeir

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