I do not know if it is a problem of Harbuzz or not, as it involves fonts
without Opentype tables. However, in Hebrew the point marks should be on the
bottom of the letter, even if it is a yod. See the string יָ . Rendering it
with Mekorot-Vilna.ttf (a open-source font I am attaching) using
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:05:20PM +0200, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
Khaled,
Here's what Roozbeh prepared:
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Behdad,
I did a very thorough search of both the Koran and the Unicode proposals for
the new Arabic characters for the last fifteen years or so.
I could
+roozbeh
On 13-10-18 04:52 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:05:20PM +0200, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
Khaled,
Here's what Roozbeh prepared:
===
Behdad,
I did a very thorough search of both the Koran and the Unicode proposals for
the new Arabic
On 13-10-18 12:19 PM, tom.progr...@gmail.com wrote:
I do not know if it is a problem of Harbuzz or not, as it involves fonts
without Opentype tables. However, in Hebrew the point marks should be on
the bottom of the letter, even if it is a yod. See the string יָ . Rendering
it with
Build Update for behdad/harfbuzz
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Build: #138
Status: Broken
Duration: 3 minutes and 23 seconds
Commit: ac8cd51 (master)
Author: Behdad Esfahbod
Message: Refactor
View the changeset:
https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/compare/8f9ec92dfce5...ac8cd511911c
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 02:04:48PM -0700, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote:
Very obscure test data, just to demonstrate the algorithm:
src: 0618 0619 064E 064F 0654 0658 0653 0654 0651 0656 0651 065C 0655
0650
ccc:
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 02:26:15PM -0700, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote:
Furthermore, alef,quranic madda ≠ alef with madda above
Why?
Because every Mushaf printed in Egypt (and most of the Arabic world)
since 1919[1]
This is all well understood, quite unfortunate but that is how Unicode
is currently is, but…
1) The original issue that started this (sub)thread; if I have
U+0622,U+0670 or U+0627,U+0653,U+0670, I expect the small Alef to
be above the Madda, placing the Madda above the small Alef will give
AFAIK, the only place it is used is as the second Noon of ننجي in Aya
88, Sura 21.
Regards,
Khaled
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 04:39:55PM -0700, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
BTW, Khaled, do you have examples of U+06E8 in the text of the Koran? I
would appreciate sura and aya numbers if you do.
On
