[HarfBuzz] Thai text render issue in Android L

[Roozbeh Pournader]

Thanks Martin, James, and Ed for the pointers and the recommendations on
design. We really appreciate it. I passed that to our designers.

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Ed Trager <ed.trager at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you, James, for the word reference!
>
> Another and, IMO, perhaps better solution for the Noto Sans Thai font
> would be to create a set of 4 special "ligature" glyphs in which the bottom
> portion of the two consonants has reduced height; and in which the height
> of the SARA U and SARA UU is also of reduced height, so that the
> properly-positioned combinations do not exceed the maximum height allowed
> for a cluster.
>
> Example image is attached for illustration.
>
> - Ed
>
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Martin Hosken <mhosken at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Roozbeh,
>>
>> > My mistake. This is intentional.
>> >
>> > Basically, the grapheme cluster would go too deep for Android, so Noto
>> Sans
>> > Thai UI pushes the SARA UU to the left so it can show something instead
>> of
>> > making SARA UU disappear.
>>
>> Moving the sara uu to the side is certainly a novel solution to the
>> problem. I think I would go so far as to say that it was a unique solution
>> to the problem. Do the Noto fonts want to be producing unique styling not
>> found in any other print in the language?
>>
>> Yours,
>> Martin
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