[HarfBuzz] Arabic presentation forms and the uniscribe backend
Jonathan Kew
jfkthame at googlemail.com
Sun Aug 18 07:01:02 PDT 2013
I'm seeing some problems with the uniscribe backend when using Arabic
presentation-form codepoints; in many cases, the glyph positioning seems
to be badly off.
For example, see the Uniscribe rendering at
http://ec2-54-226-13-158.compute-1.amazonaws.com/testcase-view.html?file=out/fonts/win8/arabtype.ttf/texts/arab/wikipedia/ur.txt.diffs#L_1_41824
where there's a large gap between the last two glyphs. There are many
similar examples in the list there, too.
This problem does NOT appear when using the same text and font in
Firefox with uniscribe shaping, which makes me suspect it's a glitch of
some kind in the harfbuzz-uniscribe backend.
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