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Hi Alvaro,

On Sun, Mar 07, 2021 at 09:54:27PM +0100, Alvaro Tejero Cantero wrote:
> 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).

Sure, it would be nice to have support for Arabic.  But this would
require even more of an effort, because of the right to left writing.
This is not just a rich font feature as the IPA combining symbols;
it has more profound consequences on how the editor should work.

Best wishes, --Joris