Re: ZWNJ/ZWJ being shown in Pango HEAD ?

[Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu clai net>]

On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 12:35 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 13:29, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> > Hello,
> > For some reasons, Pango HEAD is showing the glyphs for ZWNJ and ZWJ (I
> > don't think they are supposed to be displayed).
> > This does not occur normally (when you insert a standalone ZWNJ), but it
> > shows up when I write a sequence such as U+0995 U+09CD ZWNJ (ক্‌).
> > Can anyone explain what is happening here ?
> 
> Maybe related to:
> 
>  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118302
> 
> Where at the end we have an example of ZWJ being rendered when it
> shouldn't be rendered.


hmm - that looks like the case.
However, for some reasons, standalone Devnagari vowels signs are not
being marked with the dotted circles. That was creating more confusion.
In a related note, IIRC, apparently, M$ is trying to implement a system
where 

ZWJ+Vowel Signs 

would render the standalone vowel signs only (no dotted circle). Dunno
if it is a documented feature though :-) (however, this is an important
feature, since grammar books and primers often need to display the vowel
signs without any asscociated consonant).

-sdg-