[HarfBuzz] Arabic shaping issues

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Fri May 30 14:24:41 PDT 2014


On 14-05-30 01:03 PM, TheSauce wrote:
> Hey,
> I'm using harfbuzz with great results for all my Unicode rendering needs.
> However I have one case where it's not working correctly, which is this
> string: مِنْهُ
> Specifically, character codes (in memory order): 1605, 1616, 1606, 1618, 1607,
> 1615
> All my other arabic shaping works correctly, but this one ends up as the
> attached image.
> It looks correct in firefox, which I hear uses harfbuzz so I assume I'm doing
> something wrong, but unsure what. I'm specifying 'ar' and the arabic script
> enum for the shaping.
> Any ideas what else I may be missing?

What font / setup?  So, you have other Arabic text work but not this one?!
That doesn't make sense.  Please provide more context.

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