(I suggest avoiding to CC submit at bugs dot debian dot org..otherwise, thanks to Thamer Mahmoud for raising this issue) Quoting Khaled Hosny (khaledhosny at eglug dot org): > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 11:26:27PM +0300, Thamer Mahmoud wrote: > > Package: ttf-arabeyes > > Version: 2.0-5 > > Severity: normal > > > > Hi, > > > > While using a Xft-enabled Emacs23, I noticed that some fonts included > > in this package have "wide" Arabic diacritics, almost taking up the > > whole line. I did some testing, and I think that this problem is > > caused by the large values of width of diacritics used in some of > > these fonts. > > Some of the diacritic glyphs in some fonts have negative width, and I > think it is causing this weired behaviour in Emacs. I'm going to fix it, > but I guess emacs should handle negative glyph widths in a better way. As I understand, that will mean a new "upstream" version release in Arabeyes.org. Am I right If that's correct, please keep us posted so that we can fix the font in Debian (and later on Ubuntu).
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