Re: issue with Devanagari rendering

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 14-01-09 06:51 PM, Parth Kanungo wrote:
> I expect this "dotted circle" with halant and also a Ra (र)

The halant-ra forms a vattu and that's what you are getting.

> Grammatically, it might be inaccurate. But, my problem is related with "input
> method".
>
> So, if a user enters something wrong, my application should be able to render it.
>
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> ------- *Original Message* -------
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> *Sender* : Behdad Esfahbod<behdad behdad org>
>
> *Date* : Jan 09, 2014 16:14 (GMT+05:30)
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> *Title* : Re: issue with Devanagari rendering
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> That *is* correct rendering.  What do you expect?
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> On 14-01-09 06:42 PM, Parth Kanungo wrote:
> > Hi Behdad,
> >
> >  
> >
> > Attached are the images, I got from the string { 0x094D, 0x0930, 0x0000 };
> >
> > Also, attached is the test code to reproduce the issue.
> >
> >  
> >
> > Thanks and regards,
> >
> > Parth Kanungo
> >
> >  
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> >  
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> > ------- *Original Message* -------
> >
> > *Sender* : Behdad Esfahbod
> >
> > *Date* : Jan 09, 2014 15:56 (GMT+05:30)
> >
> > *Title* : Re: issue with Devanagari rendering
> >
> >  
> >
> > On 14-01-09 06:23 PM, Parth Kanungo wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
> > Ok, maybe then you should send a screenshot, like any useful bug report has.
> >
> > > Thanks and regards,
> > >
> > > Parth Kanungo
> > >
> > > //
> > >
> > >  
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> > >
> > > ------- *Original Message* -------
> > >
> > > *Sender* : Behdad Esfahbod
> > >
> > > *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/
> > >
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