[HarfBuzz] Renaming the shapers?

Harshula harshula at gmail.com
Wed Mar 7 04:00:38 PST 2012


On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 12:33 +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Pravin Satpute <psatpute at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Indic shaper supports some non-indic scripts as well. So yes, using
> > generic name looks logical.
> 
> But I prefer something other than "reordering", because that doesn't
> really seem to be the catch term for Indic. Indic is, well, Indic. Or
> maybe Brahmic. Reordering, split-positioning, conjoining forms and
> ligatures -- these are what characterize Indic. What single term can
> be appropriate to cover all of them without prejudice to another?

syllabic ...

cya,
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