Re: incorrect displaying of Arabic text

[James Bailey]

On Jan 27, 2011, at 5:32 PM, James Samir Ismail wrote:

> Has anybody experienced a problem with getting Arabic text to display 
> correctly in their scores?  Here's a
> snippet that contains properly formatted UTF-8 Arabic:
> 
> \score 
> {
>       \relative d' 
>       {
>               c^\markup { "العربية" } d e f g^\markup { "english" } f e d
>       }
> }
> 
> I was surprised when I built the snippet because although I get Arabic 
> characters, they are in the wrong 
> form. In Arabic, characters potentially have different forms depending on 
> where they fall in a word - 
> initial, medial and final forms. The Arabic word in the source above displays 
> correctly when viewed as 
> a UTF-8 encoding. However, when the snippet is compiled, only the initial 
> form of the Arabic characters 
> display, which is incorrect. 
> 
> I'm saving the source as UTF-8, and Arabic characters do appear - just not he 
> correct ones.  Is there 
> something I'm not telling Lilypond, or is this a bug?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Samir
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Looks like a bug to me.