[HarfBuzz] Old Korean T jamo that don't conjoin?

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 4:15 PM, Nathan Willis <nwillis at glyphography.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 6:57 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Other sequences still can combine. Just not as character composition, but
>> font-level glyph substitutions and positioning.
>>
>
> Right; I get that -- that's what the *jmo GSUBs do. Maybe I didn't express
> my question correctly. I'll try again....
>
> The Jamo block contains:
> - Modern Ls
> - Old Ls
> - fillers
> - Modern Vs
> - Old Vs
> - Modern Ts
> - Old Ts
>

Does it? I don't know.


> If the rule was that only <Modern,Modern,Modern> would compose into
> something in the Syllables block, that would make total sense to me. But
> the comment makes it sound like <Old,Old,Modern> also maps to stuff in the
> Syllables block and that it's only the Old Ts that are excluded. That's
> what I don't understand.
>

Sounds like a question for Unicode archaeologists. Or rather, why did the
national standards that Unicode imported included such precomposed
sequences and not others.


> Nate
>
>
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