Thank you very much! I never would have expected that this was ok. Best regards, Jani Brezavšček
<http://www.outfit7.com/> JANI BREZAVŠČEK SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER www.outfit7.com Ekipa2 d.o.o. | Ameriška ulica 8 1000 Ljubljana, SI <http://outfit7.com/> On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 11:20 AM, Jonathan Kew <[email protected]> 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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