Re: issue with Devanagari rendering

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

That *is* correct rendering.  What do you expect?

On 14-01-09 06:42 PM, Parth Kanungo wrote:
> Hi Behdad,
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> Attached are the images, I got from the string { 0x094D, 0x0930, 0x0000 };
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> Also, attached is the test code to reproduce the issue.
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> 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 15:56 (GMT+05:30)
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> *Title* : Re: issue with Devanagari rendering
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> 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?
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> Ok, maybe then you should send a screenshot, like any useful bug report has.
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> > Thanks and regards,
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> > Parth Kanungo
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> > //
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> > ------- *Original Message* -------
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> > *Sender* : Behdad Esfahbod
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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
> > > > system.
> > >
> > > 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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