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Re: khotot

--- Munzir Taha <munzirtaha at newhorizons dot com dot sa> wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 April 2004 02:58 pm, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> > On Wednesday - 7.April.2004 [19:23:26 +0200],
> >
> >  > If I enter the following sequence of characters:
> >  >
> >  > 0644  (laam)
> >  > 064E  (fatHa)
> >  > 0627  ('alif)
> >  >
> >  > then I should see the laam-alif ligature with the fatHa
> >  > on top of the laam part.   At least that's how I understand
> >  > the script.
> 
> This is really odd. I have seen this before in lyx, a shaping problem,
> and it's still not fixed but even you GNOME? ;)
> 
> > I don't think this is the fonts fault (well I'm not 100% sure
> > due to the TTFs having GSUBs, etc) but you might want to check
> > the various display engines and how they handle this scanario.
> 
> 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).

Salam.

 - Nadim



	
		
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