Re: issue with Devanagari rendering

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 14-01-09 06:23 PM, Parth Kanungo wrote:
> Hello Werner, Behdad,
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> Probably I am getting things wrong here.
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> I infer that you are suggesting that the fault lies in the font file itself.
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> 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.
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> Don't you think that this behaviour has anything to do with harfbuzz?

Ok, maybe then you should send a screenshot, like any useful bug report has.

> Thanks and regards,
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> Parth Kanungo
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> ------- *Original Message* -------
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> *Sender* : Behdad Esfahbod<behdad behdad org>
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> *Date* : Jan 09, 2014 12:39 (GMT+05:30)
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> *Title* : Re: issue with Devanagari rendering
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> On 14-01-09 02:19 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > > Get a non-broken-beyond-repair font.  Ie. remove freesans from your
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> > Hmm.  FreeSans is actively developed, as far as I know.  So why not
> > contact the author so that he fixes such issues?
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> 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.
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> In general, I've found that both GNU freefonts and GNU unifont have a
> quantity-over-quality mindset that is quite hurtful IMO.
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