Re: pango + zwj

[Anuradha Ratnaweera <ARatnaweera virtusa com>]

On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 01:03, Saravanan wrote:
> 
> According to Unicode rules, for forming the Malayalam
> Chillaksharams(soft consonants) one must press
> corresponding consonant+ Virama(0d4d)& ZWJ(200D).
>
> But, Yet it is not clear to me that whether pango handles
> ZWJ in the Indic fonts. Whether actually ZWJ is also taken
> care in pango. I have Unicode font which, in windows,
> renders Mal. Chillaksharams(Pure consonants) when the
> corresponding Consonat, virama, ZWJ is entered. But in
> Linux(RH9.0) it is not working. They are displayed
> separately.  I think the ZWJ is not handled in pango for
> indic fonts. What should be done, inorder to take the ZWJ
> also in to consideration for forming the the required
> combinations.

Hi Saravanan,

We have a similar situation but managed to get some of the
Sinhala character rendering in Pango.  The patch is not yet
commited.  But here is the overview.

- Unlike some other indic languages, joining of a consonent
  + virama + consonent combination is optional in Sinhala.
  So, if one wants to join them, there should be an
  explicity ZWJ.

  Consonent + Virama + Consonent produces two glyphs

  Consonent + Virama + ZWJ + Consonent produces the joined glyph

  We haven't tested this much as it is optional, but if I am
  not mistaken, it works.

- To be consistent, post half-form of Ra and Ya are also
  marked with ZWJ.

  Consonent + Virama + Ra = two glyphs
  Consonent + Virama + ZWJ + Ra = one glyph

  Same story for Ya.  Ra works this way, but for Ya, Pango
  always produced a single glyph.  We are looking into the
  details of the problem now.

	Anuradha

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