[Adding the list back to the CC] On 11/22/10 18:38, Butrus Damaskus wrote: >> - ZWNJ/ZWJ, etc: Pango also used to remove these characters from the glyph >> stream. Not actually removing them in fact, but replacing them with "empty" >> glyphs. That's ok for Arabic, but in general we should handle those two >> special characters much better. In particular, the OpenType engine should >> simply ignore ZWJ when forming ligatures. > > There are fonts that use ZWJ for forming rare ligatures. > See e.g: http://www.sbl-site.org/Fonts/SBLHebrewUserManual1.5x.pdf > > So replacing ZWJ/ZWNJ _glyphs_ with "empty" glyph is OK, but not > before they (or at least ZWJ) are subject of GSUB substitutions! > > (BTW http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635391)
Right. Thanks for bringing this up. I commented on the bug. behdad _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
