[HarfBuzz] Kannada script output differs from uniscribe.

[Behdad Esfahbod]

We finally made progress on this issue.  I'll post update on:

  https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/issues/435

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 5:38 PM, Bobby de Vos <bobby_devos at sil.org> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> According to [1] which is linked from the issue 435 that Behdad mentions
> the user should be able to type in a different order, and get the desired
> rendering, from HarfBuzz without having HarfBuzz to change. If HarfBuzz
> wishes to change to match Microsoft, that may happen later, but the user
> can have a solution now.
>
> Bobby
>
> [1] https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/issues/341#issuecomment-255759283
>
> On 2017-09-15 09:59, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>
> That's a known issue that I have not got to fully understand and finish
> yet.
>
>   https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/issues/435
>
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 8:50 AM, Tom Hindle <tom_hindle at sil.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I received a user report about some Kannada script not displaying as they
>> expect.
>>
>> harfbuzz-1.5.1-win32\hb-view.exe tunga.ttf --text-file=text.txt
>> --output-file=KannadaOutput.png --output-format=png
>>
>> Harfbuz output:
>>
>> [image: Inline image 2]
>> hb-view using Uniscribe shaper:
>>
>> [image: Inline image 3]
>> Output from application using uniscribe:
>>
>> [image: Inline image 4]
>>
>> Attached text.txt containing: "ದರ್‍ಯಾವ಼್‍ನ ಹುಯಿರ್‍ಹಾಥ."
>>
>> Attached tunga.ttf font
>>
>>
>> I got the same results using an older harbuz (1.2.7)
>>
>>
>> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
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>
>
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