[HarfBuzz] ZWJ/ZWNJ and harfbuzz

[Suresh P]

Harshula <harshula at gmail.com> writes:

> 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.
Very true. Can't expect a fix from google because for them it is
wontfix. WTF!, for years they have been stripping away ZWJ/ZWNJ,
necessary for proper shaping, from search
results in the name of nozmalization!

suresh
>
>> 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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