[HarfBuzz] please remove U+115F U+1160 from default_ignorable

[Konstantin Ritt]

Hi,

Can you attach a screenshots of these characters rendered with both
old and new XeTeX and some of the mentioned fonts?
A screenshots of "U+115F U+1161 U+112B U+1160" sample could be useful too.

Konstantin


2013/3/16 Dohyun Kim <nomosnomos at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> While testing new version of xetex which uses harfbuzz-ng for opentype
> rendering, I have encountered a serious issue about Hangul Jamo
> typesetting.  The reason is that U+115F and U+1160 are assigned to
> "default_ignorable" code points in hb-unicode-private.hh.
>
> Certainly, according to unicode standard, these two characters are
> Default_Ignorable_Code_Point.  However, although the exact meaning of
> "default ignorable code point" is not always clear to me, I am 100%
> sure that these two characters should not be ignored in opentype
> rendering.
>
> Any Hangul fonts currently available gives wrong output with current
> version of harfbuzz-ng.  Take any font supporting Hangul Jamo, eg.
> malgun.ttf in windows 8, jieubsida otf at
> http://sourceforge.jp/projects/tsukurimashou/, unbatang ttf at
> http://kldp.net/projects/unfonts/, or HCR-LVT fonts which is currently
> not accessible but was avaliable at
> http://ftp.ktug.or.kr/KTUG/hcr-lvt/.  Then run hb-shape --script=hang
> with input string "U+115F U+1161 U+112B U+1160".  We get three
> zero-width glyphs instead of two; this is wrong.
>
> So please remove U+115F and U+1160 from default_ignorable code points,
> whatever the unicode standard says about them.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Dohyun Kim
> College of Law, Dongguk University
> Seoul, Republic of Korea
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