[HarfBuzz] Positioning of Chandribindu character in Bengali text

[Somnath Chandra]

Hello Runa , Praveen,
While testing the Chandrabindu</x> character , we should also test other special characters for Bengali like (i) Khanda ta , (ii) Bisharga and (iii) Ya phala. Have you tested all these characters with Hurfbuzz engines. 
 Regards,
Somnath , W3C India 
 
On 02/10/12, Runa Bhattacharjee <arrbee.mailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On শুক্রবার 10 ফেব্রুয়ারি 2012 10:04 , Pravin Satpute wrote:
> > 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</x> 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</x> 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.
> >
> 
> Hello,
> 
> To add context to the above - these are two different characters that look
> similar. The Chandrabindu</x> (U+981) is essentially a diacritic while the Ishwar
> (U+09FA) is used at the start of the name of a deceased person (pronounced as
> 'Ishwar' for males and 'Ishwari' for females). While the latter occurs at the
> start of a word, the Chandrabindu</x> requires a preceding character to be present
> in a word it is used in.
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> regards
> Runa
> 
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