bug#34035: 26.1; Arabic shadda-kasrah renders incorrectly

[Basil L. Contovounesios]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> writes:
>
>> This seems to be a font issue independent of Emacs, e.g., I also see the
>> same thing in LibreOffice Writer: with DejaVu Sans the kasrah is
>> correctly displayed between the shadda and the seen, and with DejaVu
>> Sans Mono, the kasrah is incorrectly displayed below the seen.
>
> I can confirm that the font Emacs uses to correctly display this for me
> in "emacs -Q" is:
>
> ftcrhb:-PfEd-DejaVu Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-48-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1
>
> I also tried LibreOffice Writer, fonts "FreeSans" and "DejaVu Sans Mono"
> seem to be broken, while "DejaVu Sans" displays it correctly.
>
> Does that mean that this is a bug/missing feature in the fonts, and not
> in Emacs?

Sounds like it, though I'm curious whether Eli's concerns in
https://debbugs.gnu.org/34035#35 still apply.

Thanks,

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Basil