Fwd: Malayalam & SF_PROCESS_ZWJ

["Praveen A" <pravi a gmail com>]

Harshula,

Here is the comment from Suresh about the flag.

Cheers
Praveen

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From: Suresh P <suresh ippimail com>
Date: २००७ जून १८ २१:१०
Subject: Re: Malayalam & SF_PROCESS_ZWJ
To: Praveen A <pravi a gmail com>




Praveen,

The Rachana_w01 does not use ZWJ in the GSUB table(for chillus,ie).So
to avoid  unnecessary rendering of ZWJ the SF_PROCESS_ZWJ flag has to
be removed.Otherwise, include the ZWJ reference in the GSUB of the
font and use the SF_PROCESS_ZWJ flag.My patch uses the latter option.

suresh




> 2007/6/17, Harshula <harshula gmail com>:
> > On the indic unicode.org list I've been trying to keep track of which
> > scripts require ZWJ during the font GSUB lookup stage. What was the
> > justification for the removal of the SF_PROCESS_ZWJ from Malayalam
> > script flags?
>
> With that option the ZWJ symbol was rendered unnecessarily. It render
> well without that option.
>
> Suresh,
>
> you might want to comment on this.
>
> Regards
> Praveen
>
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