Oh oh! Can you point us to the tutorial page? Nate, can you fix this please?
On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 5:24 PM Paul Daughetee <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Richard for the pointer. I wish I had seen Jonathan's post. > However, it never appeared in the digest I received from the list (nor to > me directly) so I never saw it. To be fair, the following is from the > HarfBuzz tutorial on the "Why do I need a shaping engine?" page: "For > example, in Tamil, when the letter "TTA" (ட) letter is followed by "U" (உ), > the pair must be replaced by the single glyph "டு". The sequence of Unicode > characters "டஉ" needs to be substituted with a single "டு" glyph from the > font." So maybe that needs an edit. > > I converted my UTF-8 string to be [0xE0, 0xAE, 0x88, 0xE0, 0xAE, 0x9F, > 0xE0, 0xAF, 0x81] and I finally got back the correct glyph identifiers. So > thank you all for your responses. I'm sure I'll have more questions as this > project evolves. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Wordingham <[email protected]> > Sent: April 11, 2019 12:16 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: Paul Daughetee <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [HarfBuzz] Question on converting UTF-8 codepoints to complex > glyphs > > On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 18:03:10 +0000 > Paul Daughetee <[email protected]> wrote: > > > டு [...] > > is the ligature formed by the codepoints corresponding to the glyphs ட > > and உ. > > No! You already have been told by Jonathan Kew. > > டு is the codepoint sequence <U+0B9F TAMIL LETTER TTA, U+0BC1 TAMIL VOWEL > SIGN U>; it is **not** the ligature of ட <U+0B9F TAMIL LETTER > TTA> and உ <u+0B89 TAMIL LETTER U> . If you don't believe me, paste > them into Word and use alt/X to convert the characters to their codepoints. > > Richard. > _______________________________________________ > HarfBuzz mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz -- behdad http://behdad.org/
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