[HarfBuzz] Corner case wrt to repeating Malayalam vowel sign OO

[Cibu Johny (സിബു)]

I am not sure about rest of the Indic. However, Malayalam has the usage of
repeating a vowel sign on a consonant to show some elongation effect. This
is commonly found in comic text.


2013/2/27 Carl Simonson <simonsonc at gmail.com>

> It looks to me like the bug is not that the third one is separate but that
> the second one wraps around the first one. I'm not a Malayalam expert, but
> if it's anything like the other Indic scripts I know, it's not correct to
> have two vowels in a row.
>
> I did a simple Pango test, and Pango renders it the way I described.
>
> Carl Simonson
> simonsonc at gmail.com
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Cibu Johny (സിബു) <cibu at google.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> When
>> ​MALAYALAM ​
>> VOWEL SIGN OO is repeated after a consonant, third one is displayed
>> separately with a dotted circle. It should have behaved like the second OO
>> sign. Sample text: കോോോ
>>
>> Screenshot of the issue:
>> ​
>> **​
>>
>> ​If there is a imposed upper limit for the count of repeating vowel
>> signs, something close to 10 would be useful.​
>>
>>
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