On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 5:49 AM, Richard Wordingham <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am wondering whether this particular combination is being entered > deliberately. I got over a million raw Google hits on "อีีก"; "อีก" > means 'additional, extra', so it could be an expressive writing of the > word rather than an unnoticed typing error. For most cases, it's the latter, because some systems render both just the same, including the current Harfbuzz, although the extra vowel may cause a little more thickness, but that's hardly noticable. The old Pango distinguished these with dotted circle, so the error was easily spotted, but that raised issues on minority languages. Relying on 'mkmk' is a little bit costly, as it would need two sets of glyphs under different GDEF's for each combining vowel. And currently, most fonts are not prepared for this. However, it looks more feasible to cover minority languages. Regards, -- Theppitak Karoonboonyanan http://linux.thai.net/~thep/ _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
