Comment 16 for bug 8254

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 21:18:00 -0700
From: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
To: Mohammed Elzubeir <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#272136: [Fwd: Re: [URGENT] Debian Installer: Bug#272136: countrychooser: db_go
 fails when choosing Arabic as language]

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On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 12:15:53PM +0400, Mohammed Elzubeir wrote:
> -----Forwarded Message-----
> From: Mohammed Elzubeir <email address hidden>
> To: Documentation and Translation <email address hidden>
> Subject: Re: [URGENT] Debian Installer: Bug#272136: countrychooser: db_go=
 fails 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?

> 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?

> 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

> > 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) ?

> 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..)

The /last/ character in the file is U+0655. The file already does
contain all of U+064B - U+0652, as well as U+0653, U+0654, and U+0655.

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Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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