[HarfBuzz] Malayalam [was: Lemongrass HarfBuzz Hackfest, end of day 4]

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 07/23/2012 12:21 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
> 
> Another issue to check is the handling of a sequence with vowel-matra followed
> by virama, such as <U+0D38,0D41,0D4D>. I notice that we differ from Core Text
> on this one (using the Lohit Malayalam font) - our shaper appears to use a
> ligature of the u-matra and virama, whereas Core Text doesn't ligate them. I
> haven't tried Uniscribe yet to see what it gives.

Looks like Uniscribe agrees with CoreText.  I have to investigate.  It's
perhaps one of those features that we apply globally...

behdad