[HarfBuzz] Arabic vowels and shaping - incomplete behavior

Tom Hacohen tom.hacohen at partner.samsung.com
Sun Oct 31 01:15:29 PDT 2010


On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 08:40 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On 10/27/10 07:28, Tom Hacohen wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > Is it just me, or do vowels break shaping in Arabic?
> 
> Pango has code to work around Arabic fonts that have no GDEF table, and no
> GPOS table.  I've had planned to implement that in HarfBuzz but been putting
> it off for a while.  I'll go ahead and do that today.
> 
> What font are you using?

Now it works, the issue was a bug you just recently fixed.
As for a font: I'm using Microsoft's Arial and DejaVuSans for testing
those.

--
Tom.




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