bug#5081: zwj should not be ignored in indic text

[Stefan Kangas]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Praveen A <pravi.a@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> ZWJ is required to display some characters (like Malayalam chillu or
>> pure consonants) in many indic languages (Persian and Arabic also
>> needs these characters). These should not be ignored while displaying
>> indic text.
>>
>> See attachment for an example.
>>
>> പ്രവീ(ണ്‍) സറുമാ(ന്‍) ഹോഗ്‌വാ(ര്‍)ഡ്സ്
>
> I can't read Indic, but the text seems to be displayed (for me) in
> pretty much the same way as in gedit, and not as they were displayed in
> the Emacs screenshot.
>
> So has this been fixed in Emacs 24?

That was 8 years ago, and I'm seeing the same thing as Lars here on
Emacs 26.1 and current master.  In other words, it looks like the
gedit screenshot and not the incorrect emacs one.

Can you still reproduce this on a modern version of Emacs?  If I don't
hear back from you in a couple of weeks, I'll just assume that this has
been fixed since this was reported and close this bug.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas