<div dir="ltr">It looks to me like the bug is not that the third one is separate but that the second one wraps around the first one. I'm not a Malayalam expert, but if it's anything like the other Indic scripts I know, it's not correct to have two vowels in a row.<div>
<br></div><div style>I did a simple Pango test, and Pango renders it the way I described.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>Carl Simonson<br><a href="mailto:simonsonc@gmail.com">simonsonc@gmail.com</a></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Cibu Johny (സിബു) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cibu@google.com" target="_blank">cibu@google.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,0)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">When <div style="color:rgb(51,51,0);display:inline" class="gmail_default">
MALAYALAM </div>VOWEL SIGN OO is repeated after a consonant, third one is displayed separately with a dotted circle. It should have behaved like the second OO sign. Sample text: കോോോ<br></font><div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br>
Screenshot of the issue:</font><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">
<br><b style="font-size:medium;font-weight:normal"><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/WhnYLfzhU32QwSFL8cqdqykqc-r1IyTp88Sh3S8r9EQPXoLxf7FXAFtLNeLviHeSUD2gSNb9t42BRacNWXl2FOJI1Mq0LTLbIp9cCKHlPLeesyWn1q9byHee0g" width="207px;" height="40px;"></b></font></div>
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</div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font><div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,0)" class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">If there is a imposed upper limit for the count of repeating vowel signs, something close to 10 would be useful.</font></div>
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