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

[Jonathan Kew]

On 28/2/13 09:59, Santhosh Thottingal wrote:>
 >
 > On Thursday, February 28, 2013, Jonathan Kew wrote:
 >
 >     I wonder whether it really makes sense to allow multiple matras in
 >     -all- positions. I believe I've seen Devanagari examples similar to
 >     Cibu's Malayalam comic, where a right-matra is repeated to suggest a
 >     loooooong sound. But left-reordering matras? Split matras? Above- or
 >     below-matras? The idea of repeating these indefinitely when writing
 >     seems much less plausible.
 >
 >
 >
 > Please see this image listing various cases of vowel sign repeating:
 > http://thottingal.in/images/repeated-vowels-ml.png
 > Split matras expand on both sides as illustrated.

Do you have illustrations/examples demonstrating a real-world 
requirement for repeated split matras, rather than just a constructed 
test-case?

 >
 > It might be a related case- After writing numbers, just like we write
 > "16th" in English, in Malayalam, it is written as 16ാം , number followed
 > by ാ, ം. Currently this cannot be written without dotted circle, but
 > ideally this should render without dotted circle.
 >

We're aware of this example, and intend to fix it; it's a separate issue 
from whether some or all matras may be repeated.

JK