[Harfbuzz-indic] Fwd: Re: [HarfBuzz] A problem about indic shape (for khmer)

[Olivier BERTEN]

I sent it to Danh Hong which is considered by many as the reference for
khmer unicode...

He told me he would answer soon so I guess his answer is almost ready ;-)

Olivier

Le 09/05/12 12:26, Behdad Esfahbod a écrit :
> I noticed that I myself forget to use the Indic list for Indic discussions.
> Is there anyone on this list who doesn't want to be on the main HarfBuzz list?
>  I'm thinking about merging them back in.
>
> In the mean time, I posted this message to the list three weeks ago and got no
> feedback.  Can people on this list help?
>
> Thanks,
> behdad
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [HarfBuzz] A problem about indic shape (for khmer)
> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:41:54 -0400
> From: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org>
> To: datao zhang <dataozhang at hotmail.com>
> CC: harfbuzz at lists.freedesktop.org
>
> So, looks like these are all split matras (according to
> IndicMatraCategory.txt) that do not have a decomposition:
>
> U+0AC9
> U+0B57
> U+0F77
> U+0F79
> U+17BE
> U+17BF
> U+17C0
> U+17C4
> U+17C5
> U+1925
> U+1926
> U+1B3C
> U+1C29
> U+A9C0
> U+1112E
> U+1112F
> U+111BF
>
> Can people familiar with these characters please clarify what the desired
> behavior of these characters is?
>
> Thanks,
> behdad
>
> On 04/19/2012 02:36 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>> On 04/19/2012 02:24 PM, datao zhang wrote:
>>
>>> The following Matra can’t be decomposed:
>>> 0x17C0
>>> 0x17C4
>>> 0x17C5
>>> 0x17BE
>>> 0x17BF
>> None of these are decomposable in Unicode, so I have to to adjust the shaper
>> for that.  Looks like for Khmer all split matras add U+17C1 to the left.  I
>> have a couple ideas how to implement this now.  Will take a look.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> behdad
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