Re: khotot

[Munzir Taha <munzirtaha at newhorizons dot com dot sa>]

On Wednesday 21 April 2004 04:04 pm, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> --- Munzir Taha <munzirtaha at newhorizons dot com dot sa> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 13 April 2004 03:42 pm, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> > > > A quick test revealed this:
> > > > 1. This problem is available only in All kacst fonts but not others.
> > > > 2. It's valid in gedit, mozilla, ... but not in kde/Qt apps.
> > > >
> > > > Conclusion: This bug belongs to both the fonts and the rendering
> > > > engine.
> > >
> > > So this problem is not in any of the Khotot proper fonts ?  In other
> > > words, its not in any of the ae_* fonts ?  If that is the case then
> > > its 100% a font issue which can/should be corrected within the GSUBs
> > > (I think).
> >
> > More testing revealed that the problem is in ae_* fonts, Kacst fonts,
> > Traditional Arabic, Andalus.
> >
> > The problem doesn't exist with Tahoma, Courier New, ...
>
> Hrmmm, odd.  Well, we really need someone that knows what they are doing
> with regard to fonts (ie. someone that is well beyond the click to see
> what happens phase).  So the same application (say 'gedit') works with
> Tahoma but not with kacst and/or one of the ae_* fonts ?

Yes, have I replied to this before?

> > The problem as mentioned previously doesn't appear in Qt apps,
> > Winblows ... which make it difficult to resolve unless an expert
> > help us.
>
> The problem here (in the future do please make sure its mentioned and/or
> included in the post - I had to go to the archives to hunt it down) in
> brief is that Harakat characters in between combined characters aren't
> being processed correctly and are furthermore adversely affecting the
> combining.
>
> For example,  LAM + FATHA + ALEF should produce the LAA + FATHA (the
> fatha should be on the LAM part) but no combing in some instances is
> happening.
>
> What needs to happen now is to narrow down the problem to either the
> application(s) and/or the fonts.  Munzir, take one application at a
> time and compare say Tahoma vs. our fonts and let us know what you
> find out please.
>
> I'd also highly recommend taking this thread to the 'developer' list
> (Behdad/Roozbeh, might have some insight into this issue).
>
> Salam.
>
>  - Nadim

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