[HarfBuzz] Recursive ligatures - Devanagari shaping

Pravin Satpute psatpute at redhat.com
Wed Dec 15 00:32:16 PST 2010


On 12/15/2010 01:44 PM, Tom Hacohen wrote:
>
> Out of curiosity, why does Hindi need special handling? because of the
> recursive ligatures? Are GPOS entries supposed to work?

Devanagari Script (Hindi language uses) has reordering. It required GSUB 
features as well. Syllables are also very important in Applying OT 
feature on text.

Regards,
Pravin S




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