[HarfBuzz] Regression test for thai (0.9.5 vs 0.9.14)

Andrew Cunningham lang.support at gmail.com
Wed May 15 06:47:05 PDT 2013


On 15 May 2013 10:17, Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham at ntlworld.com>wrote:

>
> I'm sorry, I couldn't find the Thai logic for dotted circles.
> (The option --bot seems to have no effect on hb-view for Thai in
> HarfBuzz 0.9.14.)  Can you assure me that hyphen-like characters (in
> particular U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS, U+2011 NON-BREAKING HYPHEN, U+2013 EN
> DASH and U+2212 MINUS SIGN) will be treated as valid base consonants for
> Thai combining marks? Lao generally uses the x-like characters (U+0078
> LATIN SMALL LETTER X and U+00D7 MULTIPLICATION SIGN) as generic base
> characters.  These usages extend to the 'Tai Tham' script, with Thais
> favouring the hyphen family and Laotians the x-family.
>
>
I would have assumed that was a font feature rather than a renderer issue.

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