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Re: How to get the connected forms of Syriac letters?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: How to get the connected forms of Syriac letters?
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 17:37:12 +0200

> From: Benjamin Riefenstahl <b.riefenstahl@turtle-trading.net>
> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 23:32:53 +0100
> 
>     ;; Tell Emacs to actually use shaping for Syriac (via m17n).
>     ;; \u0700-\u074F: Syriac
>     ;; \u0640: TATWEEL
>     ;; \u200D: ZWJ
>     (set-char-table-range
>      composition-function-table
>      '(?\u0700 . ?\u074F)
>      (list ["[\u0700-\u074F\u0640\u200D]+" 0 font-shape-gstring]))

Yes, this is missing from the basic Emacs setup, I will add it
shortly.

But why did you need to mention TATWEEL and ZWJ there?  (And if ZWJ is
needed, then why not ZWNJ as well?)



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