[HarfBuzz] ZWJ/ZWNJ and harfbuzz

Harshula harshula at gmail.com
Mon Jan 23 16:46:42 PST 2012


Hi Jiang,

On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 14:37 +0100, Jjgod Jiang wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Harshula <harshula at gmail.com> wrote:

> > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72984
> >
> > https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=45840
> 
> I couldn't find a proposed patch from either of the two bug trackers.

I've already emailed the owner asking about these two bugs, no response.
It is frustrating to deal with this again when it was fixed many years
ago in Pango/ICU and applications like OOo.

> Neither could I reproduce the issue in Qt with
> http://i18nl10n.com/fonts/zwj_zwnj.html.

That's Devanagari script. Have a look at the thread from 2007 on indic
unicode.org list for "Which Indic scripts use ZWJ in the GSUB table?".
So far MS has only indicated to me that Sinhala, Malayalam and Kannada
use ZWJ in lookups.

cya,
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