[HarfBuzz] Renaming the shapers?

[Khaled Hosny]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 05:54:03PM +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Harshula <harshula at gmail.com> wrote:
> > syllabic ...
> 
> Not a bad idea at all. I support syllabic.
> 
> But clarify -- isn't Arabic etc syllabic? I heard even sometimes
> Arabic uses diacritics on consonants to indicate vowels a la abugidas.

No, Arabic script is an (impure) Abjad, and some languages even use it
as a pure Alphabet like the new Uyghur Arabic alphabet.

Regards,
 Khaled