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

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Wed Feb 27 17:09:10 PST 2013


On 13-02-27 05:41 PM, Cibu Johny (സിബു) 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
> 
> ​If there is a imposed upper limit for the count of repeating vowel signs,
> something close to 10 would be useful.​

Right...  We used to have no limit, but to be closer to Uniscribe we limited
consonants to about 5 per syllable, and matras to 4.  Now, split matras count
two each.

I'll go ahead and lift the limit again.

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