[FriBidi] Hebrew diacritics in incorrect positions
Eduardo Castineyra
eduardo at brainstorm.es
Tue May 21 08:32:44 PDT 2013
Thanks Dov.
El 20/05/2013 18:33, Dov Grobgeld escribió:
> T
> he Unicode bi-directional algorithm, which FriBidi implements, does
> not deal with positions of glyphs at all, but only with the glyph
> order, and in some cases with glyph substitutions. To get correct
> positioning you must use a shaping engine (e.g. pango or the more low
> level Harfbuzz). Especially for something as subtle as Hebrew
> diacritics positioning.
>
> Regards,
> Dov
>
>
> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Eduardo Castineyra
> <eduardo at brainstorm.es <mailto:eduardo at brainstorm.es>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> When I pass this text to fribidi:
>
> זָקֵף גָּד֕וֹל
>
> I get all the diacritics in incorrect positions.
>
> Is there a way to extract the correct positions of the characters,
> without having to use a glyph-based shaping engine?
>
> Thanks!
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