[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Lam-alef, bound to key "b" belongs to the Unicode presentation block B. > Imagine, it is like a piece of metal type of "isolated lam-alef", > picked up as an element of printing press. > Components of this category are to appear on your PC screen, or > to be printed on paper.
I've seen this before on some programs. It became less of a trouble after switching to a UTF-8 locale (i.e. being able to handle inputing/saving characters in the presentational forms range). Also while using applications that are unaware of this problem, it is very much reproduceable when using non UTF-8 encodings. For instance, when saving files that includes a keyboard inserted presentational lam-alef in Windows-1256 files. > X Window System does not allow a sequence of symbols to be bound to > a key. Only one symbol is possible. The architecture is now found > unsatisfactory, but it can not be changed easily. It would be a big, big > change. Is there a bug or a discussion about this somewhere? I completely ignore the 'b' key, but I'm not sure how significant that would be for Arabic touch typing. I also find other solutions like scim to be truly an overkill. Sometimes, I see trouble with delete key behavior and cursor movement near lam-alef characters in QT apps, but this might not be related or not even an up-to-date issue (I'm on maybe a little outdated system for desktop use, Debian Sarge). > But mozilla / firefox, which Arabeyes members seem to take part in, > was originally written mainly by non-Arabs. They are only Unicode-aware, > not of the above workaround. For example, when I type in firefox-1.0.6 > (the latest of the stable release), "as-salaam", seen and lam-alef > do not appear combined. > What is worse is that it is not even letters of lam and alef in Arabic > language, but just a piece of metal type! > On a related note, here is a bug that I'm facing on Firefox's lam-alef handling with selections and cursor movements. Could any one please have a look and confirm: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271057 Regards, Thamer Mahmoud
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