[HarfBuzz] Positioning of Chandribindu character in Bengali text

[Pravin Satpute]

On 02/10/2012 04:06 AM, Peter Hunter wrote:
>
> G'day all
>
> I am using Harfbuzz (not ng) to layout Bengali text
>
> The Chandrabindu character (Bengali U+981) at the start of a line is 
> positioned by Harfbuzz above the Unicode character dotted circle 
>  (U+25cc)
>
> My users tell me that the Chandrabindu character " is used at the 
> beginning of a line to denote the bengali "Iswar" (Late) word.
>
> So, it is usually used as the first character before a name of a 
> person, who is dead".
>

Users expecting U+09FA[1] character, nothing to do with OTLS engine.

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Pravin Satpute


1. http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n4156.pdf

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