[HarfBuzz] Fwd: hindi problem

[Varun Talwar]

@Jani

Re. fontstash-es: You can also directly use
https://github.com/tangrams/harfbuzz-example for your test purposes.

Varun Talwar
Senior Graphics Engineer, Mapzen
Master's of Sciences (Computer Graphics and Game Technology)
University of Pennsylvania
Mailto: tallytalwar at gmail.com

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Varun Talwar <tallytalwar at gmail.com> wrote:

> @Jani
>
> Just a side note on fontstash-es
> <https://github.com/tangrams/fontstash-es>, we have not updated it for a
> while now. However we have been using https://github.com/hjanetzek/alfons
> project as a replacement for fontstash-es, in our map renderer (
> https://github.com/tangrams/tangram-es).
>
> Varun Talwar
> Senior Graphics Engineer, Mapzen
> Master's of Sciences (Computer Graphics and Game Technology)
> University of Pennsylvania
> Mailto: tallytalwar at gmail.com
>
> On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 4:02 AM, Jani Brezavšček <
> jani.brezavscek at outfit7.com> wrote:
>
>> Thank you very much! I never would have expected that this was ok.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Jani Brezavšček
>>
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>> On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 11:20 AM, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 06/12/2017 09:34, Jani Brezavšček wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I'm writing because I can't find a solution to my problem.. I would
>>>> like to display the following hindi text as it is written bellow or e.g. in
>>>> google search bar
>>>>
>>>> शक्ति (I put it in google translate and it looks like it means "power"
>>>> in hindi)
>>>>
>>>> with the line above the characters (starting at second one) going above
>>>> from the second character to the last one. But what I get after using
>>>> harfbuzz is not the same... the last two characters get merged into one and
>>>> it does not look like what I pasted
>>>>
>>>> I've checked it with Sanskrit2003.ttf and NotoSansDevanagari-Medium.ttf
>>>> they both produce the same abomination
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone please help me understand if this is a bug in harfbuzz or if
>>>> I am doing something wrong?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I guess you're confused by the rendering of the combination "क्त" (ka,
>>> virama, ta). This pair of consonants ("kt") can be written either with a
>>> half-ka followed by ta, or as a single conjunct glyph. Which is used is a
>>> stylistic choice the font designer will have made.
>>>
>>> Most fonts I've seen go for the single-glyph "kt" conjunct, although the
>>> Mangal and Nirmala UI fonts from Windows choose the longer "half-ka + ta"
>>> rendering, so if that's what you're comparing to, you may be surprised by
>>> the conjunct in other fonts.
>>>
>>> See http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p276561/html/s
>>> ection67.html (scroll down to section 7, "Some forms are completely
>>> different...", and note the two examples of the "kt" combination).
>>>
>>> In short: how it looks depends on the font you choose.
>>>
>>> JK
>>>
>>>
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