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Re: [doc] [Pkg-fonts-bugs] Bug#577254: Bug#577254: ttf-arabeyes: Wrong width of diacritics in some fonts



(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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