Re: Re: issue with Devanagari rendering

[Parth Kanungo <parth k samsung com>]

Title: Samsung Enterprise Portal mySingle

Hello Werner, Behdad,

 

Probably I am getting things wrong here.

I infer that you are suggesting that the fault lies in the font file itself.

 

I ran my code with different font files available in Windows, like Kokila, Managal and Arial Unicode MS, all of which contain the Unicode U+25CC.
The output is still wrong.

 

Don't you think that this behaviour has anything to do with harfbuzz?

 

Thanks and regards,

Parth Kanungo

 

 

 

 

 

------- Original Message -------

Sender : Behdad Esfahbod<behdad behdad org>

Date : Jan 09, 2014 12:39 (GMT+05:30)

Title : Re: issue with Devanagari rendering

 

On 14-01-09 02:19 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
>> Get a non-broken-beyond-repair font.  Ie. remove freesans from your
>> system.
> 
> Hmm.  FreeSans is actively developed, as far as I know.  So why not
> contact the author so that he fixes such issues?

The maintainer is in fact CC'ed on this message already.  Recent versions have
fixed a lot, but the version stuck on most Linux distros is beyond repair in
the shaper.

In general, I've found that both GNU freefonts and GNU unifont have a
quantity-over-quality mindset that is quite hurtful IMO.

-- 
behdad
http://behdad.org/