[HarfBuzz] fix to harfbuzz for assamese language using bengali script

Pravin Satpute psatpute at redhat.com
Thu Aug 26 22:38:17 PDT 2010


On 08/26/2010 05:07 PM, Lars Knoll wrote:
> Hi Pravin,
>
> the patch should not be required anymore. I did submit a patch to fix the 
> problem last november. See 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/harfbuzz/commit/?id=e66916e33821e71ba19479c32108a2be8bb539b2
>   

that's nice,  looks like i missed that somehow, will test and remove
patch from downstream now

thanks for it.

Regards,
Pravin S


> Cheers,
> Lars
>
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>>     Bengali script contains two 'Ra' characters one for Bengali language
>> (u09B0) and other for Assamese language (u09F0), so reph gets formed in
>> these language with respective Ra character.
>>
>>    trick used to fix this problem is Assamese Ra will be used only in
>> assamese language, so if user enters u09F0 it means that this is
>> Assamese language and should change reph to u09F0
>>
>>   see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=437440 i fixed this
>> problem long time back and presently using this in fedora, but still
>> patch is not in upstream
>>
>>   It will be very nice, if we can add this patch (see attachment) in
>> upstream, let me know if anything required from me
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Pravin S
>>     
>   




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