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

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Wed Nov 21 12:32:58 PST 2012


Upstream now.  Thanks everyone for testing.

On 12-11-21 05:13 AM, Mathieu Pellerin wrote:
> 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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