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

[Cibu Johny (സിബു)]

Here is an example: http://awesomescreenshot.com/0c4zhy325


2013/2/27 Cibu Johny (സിബു) <cibu at google.com>

> 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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