> On 17 May 2015, at 22:52, Glenn Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Andreas L. Delmelle (JIRA) > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > ... > > IIUC, a correct fix would first need to determine how many characters that > > "mcs" array leads > > to in the output, in order to set the number of letter spaces to the > > correct value. > > s/characters/characters that map to spacing glyphs/ > > though even this does not work in all cases, e.g., in Indic and related > scripts where orthographic syllables are grouped together and letter space > would appear between the syllables and not the spacing characters of a > syllable.
Interesting... Admittedly, I expressed it rather poorly, but what I was actually trying to refer to was the latter you mention, based on what I recall from a few introductory lectures on Sanskrit I attended quite a while ago. IIRC, it was considered almost an art form to combine different base 'letters' or 'graphemes' into one 'grapheme cluster' in different ways (if I use those terms correctly here). From an end user perspective, that would count as only one 'character', while a programmer would see it coming in as a handful of codepoints. KR Andreas
