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.
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