reassign 349657 ttf-freefont severity 349657 important thanks Am Mittwoch 25 Januar 2006 02:45 schrieb Yitzchak Gale: > I now believe that this is a bug in > the fonts. It is still a mystery to me > why this problem only occurs in the > Debian build, though.
Might be because we use a newer icu (system-icu) and/or some fontconfig things. > Please forward this bug to > ttf-freefont, and upgrade severity > to important. Doing. > In the freetype fonts, the OpenType > feature tag for the Alef-Lamed ligature (0xFB4F) > is "liga", which means "Standard Ligature". > That implies that the ligature is mandatory. > > But this ligature certainly should not be > mandatory. The correct feature tag for this > ligature should be "dlig", which means > "Discretionary Ligature". See the OpenType > specification document for Hebrew at: > > http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otfntdev/hebrewot/features.aspx > > When I make this change in the SFD source > file and recompile using fontforge, the problem is > fixed. Thanks for the info. Regards, Rene -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerprint: 41FA F208 28D4 7CA5 19BB 7AD9 F859 90B0 248A EB73