On 05/18/2012 04:23 PM, Ed Trager wrote: > Hi, Behdad and HarfBuzz folks, > > 2nd TAI THAM shaping question: > > Can you also please confirm that at the present time, the HarfBuzz-ng > code base is *completely unaware* of the fact that U+1A55 TAI THAM > CONSONANT SIGN MEDIAL RA needs to be "shifted" so that in the visual > output it *precedes* the base consonant?
Yes, we have not implemented pre-base reordering Ra yet. It's needed for Malayalam IIUC, so it's in my plans for the next few weeks. behdad > i.e., supposing: > > * "K" represents U+1A23 LOW KA > * "R" represents U+1A55 MEDIAL RA > * "U" represents U+1A6A VOWEL SIGN UU > > Then if in the logical backstore of the string we have: > > "KRU" > > this needs to appear visually as: > > "RKU" > > ( the "U" is actually a subjoined vowel sign that hangs below the "K" > but we can't show that in email ) > _______________________________________________ > HarfBuzz mailing list > HarfBuzz@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz > _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list HarfBuzz@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
