On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Shriramana Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Rajeesh K Nambiar > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> From the in-tree test file, test cases 15, 19, 20, 53 and 54 all >> involve 'Ra'. Case 5 (കാര്ക്കോടകന്) involves 'RA+ZWJ' in the middle >> of the word. At present all are failing (interestingly, case 5 was >> fine during the crash ;-)). > > Hello -- running your sequence through UniView > (http://rishida.net/scripts/uniview/) shows me that the sequence you > have used is actually RA + VIRAMA + ZWJ (and not RA + ZWJ). However,
Right, it is RA + VIRAMA + ZWJ. > ever since the encoding of the atomic chillu-s, the above sequence is > no longer recommended for producing the chillu-RA because it would > cause distinct encoded sequences to be rendered the same. An unfortunate decision by Unicode consortium, yet we are left with supporting thousands of articles using those encodings. > > As such I think it is not advisable for HB to support the old sequence > RA + VIRAMA + ZWJ. Behdad might like to ask about this on the Unicode > (or Unicore, if he has access) before implementing support for those > old sequences. > >> Also noticed that post-base 'LA' is not correctly rendered for 'സ്പ്ലേ'. > > Can you clarify what you mean by *post*-base LA? You mean *sub*-base > LA? Because AFAIK only YA and VA have post-base forms, but perhaps I > am mistaken... Right again, sub-base LA. My mistake. > > -- > Shriramana Sharma -- Cheers, Rajeesh _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
