On 06/12/2017 09:34, Jani Brezavšček wrote:
Hello,
I'm writing because I can't find a solution to my problem.. I would like
to display the following hindi text as it is written bellow or e.g. in
google search bar
शक्ति (I put it in google translate and it looks like it means "power" in
hindi)
with the line above the characters (starting at second one) going above
from the second character to the last one. But what I get after using
harfbuzz is not the same... the last two characters get merged into one
and it does not look like what I pasted
I've checked it with Sanskrit2003.ttf and NotoSansDevanagari-Medium.ttf
they both produce the same abomination
Can anyone please help me understand if this is a bug in harfbuzz or if
I am doing something wrong?
I guess you're confused by the rendering of the combination "क्त" (ka,
virama, ta). This pair of consonants ("kt") can be written either with a
half-ka followed by ta, or as a single conjunct glyph. Which is used is
a stylistic choice the font designer will have made.
Most fonts I've seen go for the single-glyph "kt" conjunct, although the
Mangal and Nirmala UI fonts from Windows choose the longer "half-ka +
ta" rendering, so if that's what you're comparing to, you may be
surprised by the conjunct in other fonts.
See
http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p276561/html/section67.html
(scroll down to section 7, "Some forms are completely different...", and
note the two examples of the "kt" combination).
In short: how it looks depends on the font you choose.
JK
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