[Harfbuzz-indic] Incorrect handling of reph in Bengali

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Tue Mar 13 08:26:23 PDT 2012


On 03/13/2012 10:10 AM, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> I was testing the output of HB (built from up-to-date Git repo) with
> latest Lohit Bengali (https://fedorahosted.org/lohit/) with the
> attached text (rka rkaa etc series in Bengali). The control rendering
> is that of LibreOffice 3.4.2 on Kubuntu Oneiric which I think uses
> ICU.
> 
> I find that in rka, rkaa and rkii, the reph glyph is not correctly
> produced. In the case of other vowels, the reph is not correctly
> positioned above the stem of ka.

Correct.  I have not implemented reph handling yet.  Will do, eventually...
I'll try to allocate some time this week for some Indic hacking.


> Should I report this officially?

Not really.  I'll make sure it's in the test suite.

behdad


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