[HarfBuzz] The canonical ordering of hamza marks

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 12-09-10 02:36 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
> On 2/9/12 05:07, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>>
>> Ideally, I think hamza and madda should come first, then shadda, then
>> the vowel marks then everything else:
>>
>> * hamzat and maddat: U+0653-U+0655, U+065F, U+0674, U+06E4
>> * shadda: U+0651
>> * vowel marks: U+064B-U+0650, U+0652, U+0656-U+065E, U+08F0-U+08F2
>>
> 
> The ordering of madda and vowel marks was raised on the Unicode list in July
> 2011, and at that point the responses indicated that madda should *follow*
> vowel marks; see
> http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2011-m07/0143.html and its replies.

Anyone wants to summarize the conclusions here?  I like to address this.
We're in much better shape code-wise to fix this now.

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