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[Alvaro Tejero Cantero <address@hidden>]

Hi

These unicode characters are tricky, because they don't display as usual glyphs,
but do something with respect to the previous character.  This is not supported
in TeXmacs, for the moment, although it could be implemented if there
is enough demand.  The fact that you see ‘t<#361>s’, ‘u<#32F>’, etc.
means that the characters are not available as individual glyphs
in the font.  You may use a font like 'Andika Basic' to have
at least the glyphs.  But that won't fix the spacing.

Would this kind of fix work also for Arabic? That could potentially open TeXmacs to a large community of users.

(The people I know who could benefit are academics who teach Arabic or research from Arabic sources, and for them I am not sure fixing this one issue would pay off, since they tend to need to mix RTL Arabic with commentary in a LTR language, which seems very complex to implement well).

Best,

Álvaro

 

A temporary fix if you only occasionally need these symbols is
to type what you want in math-mode (using wide over, wide under) and
then remove the 'math' tag.  We might make the wide over/under tags
available in text mode if needed.  Of course, this is not an ideal
solution, because the correspondence with Unicode is lost.

Best wishes, --Joris