[HarfBuzz] Telugu support

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Fri Jul 20 07:32:30 PDT 2012


On 07/20/2012 02:14 AM, srikar rangineni wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately, it is regressed further with Lohit-Telugu font. I have attached

Right.  Because one of the changes we made yesterday was not tuned for
old-spec fonts.  Yet.  Just fixed now.

> Can you also let us know the failure rates with Lohit fonts as I foresee most
> of us will end up using Lohit fonts with library (at least in the short term)?

This morning it was 57%.  Now it's more like 1.40%.

behdad


> 
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org
> <mailto:behdad at behdad.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Without reading your email, lemme my local version of HB that I will push out
>     in an hour or so does Telugu very properly...
> 
>     Stay tuned.
>     behdad
> 
>     On 07/19/2012 08:45 PM, srikar rangineni wrote:
>     > Behdad/Jonathan,
>     >
>     > Thank you for the awesome work you guys are doing.
>     >
>     > I just realized that you both are having fun at Hackfest. I wanted to share
>     > one lingering category of issues for Telugu (my mother tongue). Fixing this
>     > should make Telugu failure rate reduce considerably.
>     >
>     > Shaping U+0C15,U+0C4D,U+0C30,U+0C3E should appear as క్రా but it appears as in
>     > attached file.
>     > If I understand anything here, looks like matra needs to be reordered
>     > (https://www.microsoft.com/typography/otfntdev/teluguot/shaping.aspx).
>     >
>     > Also, can you share failure rate for Telugu?
>     >
>     > How can I access test framework you guys are using? Sorry, If you guys
>     already
>     > sent info on this as I am not able to find it.
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     > Srikar
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