[HarfBuzz] Testing out Jonathan's proposal to fix mixed-up Khmer fonts

Mathieu Pellerin nirvn.asia at gmail.com
Wed Nov 21 02:13:00 PST 2012


So, harfbuzz is actually doing exactly what the font is requesting. So
this brings down the number of broken fonts to _zero_. Excellent : )

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Olivier BERTEN
<olivier.berten at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Khmer Busra dot
> This font does something that a Unicode font should not do and that is it
> does not show the ‘correct’ symbol for one particular Unicode codepoint. It
> shows a dotted circle in the place where a ក should be shown. It may be used
> for didactic purposes. This is to circumvent a particular limitation of the
> Microsoft Unicode implementation that does not permit some Khmer symbols to
> stand on their own together with another character.
> This font is not suited for displaying any Khmer text."
>
> So it's not broken but doesn't infirm the patch ;-)
>
> Olivier



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