[HarfBuzz] Kannada script output differs from uniscribe.

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Here it is:
https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/issues/435#issuecomment-335560167

On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 7:28 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:

> 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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>>
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>
>
>
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> behdad
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