[HarfBuzz] Indic reordering failing with latest HB trunk

[Jonathan Kew]

On 23/10/13 20:02, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> Hello. My local HB Git clone is at
> ac8cd511911c7dca6222d14fa758bff75d601567 which git reports to be
> up-to-date.
>
> For some reason HB seems to have gone haywire in doing Indic
> reordering. I tested Devanagari, Tamil and Malayalam.
>

Seems to work OK here. I suspect something about your build must be 
broken; are you getting the "fallback" shaper instead of "ot"? Or did 
you build without any valid Unicode callbacks?

> Sample text used:
>
> Devanagari: कर्माणि
>
> Tamil: கெ கே கை கொ கோ கௌ
>
> Malayalam: കെ കേ കൈ കൊ കോ കൌ
>
> I tested with Lohit family of fonts and FreeSans (and Sanskrit 2003
> for Devanagari). I attach the wrong renderings. The right renderings
> come from Qt 4.8.5 (probably old HB).
>
> Probably other Indic scripts also have this problem.
>
> LibO 4.1.2 in Kubuntu Saucy seems also to have this problem. I am not
> sure if it is inherited from HB or what.
>
> BTW is harfbuzz-indic still active or not or have we fully merged it
> into this list?
>
>
>
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