[HarfBuzz] Recursive ligatures - Devanagari shaping

[Tom Hacohen]

On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 14:02 +0530, Pravin Satpute wrote:
> 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.

OK, thanks.

What about GPOS entries, are they supposed to work? or do they depend on
"script detection and support" or something like that? (In regard to
harfbuzz's internal design).

Thanks,
Tom.