Re: Hamza U+0621

["Thomas Milo" <t dot milo at chello dot nl>]

Hi Meor,

I am working on a solution outside OT and all that. I'll keep you guys
posted.

Salaam,

t


Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya wrote:
> Tom,
> I'm not sure it's OpenType (the spec) fault, or it's implementation
> (uniscribe, pango) fault, or it might just be plain VOLT fault. I
> think  the problem lies between VOLT (the software the generate
> opentype table) to Uniscribe/OTLS  implementation. OpenType , the spec
> is not the problem. Anyway, I've to admit, last time I did not test it
> on Linux when the problems occurs, so not sure how it behaves. I only
> test it after it works under windows (which still have some problems
> under Linux).
> I might be able to eliminate all of the problem by creating the
> OpenType table (GSUB mostly) by hand and recompile it using TTX, but
> that will take a lot of my time (unless I can work full time on it, I
> might do it).  I still think that somehow VOLT produces a buggy GSUB
> table, but difficult to prove it.
>
> Regards.
>
>
> On 9/20/05, Thomas Milo <t dot milo at chello dot nl> wrote:
>> Meor,
>>
>> I suppose you are discussing flaws of OpenType?
>>
>> t
>>
>>
>> Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya wrote:
>>> Mete,
>>> Last time I tried, I did have problems to make it work in both
>>> situation. If I were to make it work for the lam alef with floating
>>> hamza, it does not work in the second case. If I were to make it
>>> work for the second case, the first case does not work. That's why
>>> in the text, for the first case it was encode as lam hamza alef,
>>> whereby the second case was encoded with tatweel hamza above . This
>>> is just to make it visually correct. There might be a way to
>>> accomplish this, but we might need some help from experts it this
>>> (maybe from MS). This is becasue I'm not sure why it does not work;
>>> It should have been. There might be a bug somewhere (not sure
>>> where).
>>>
>>> Regards.
>>>
>>> On 9/20/05, Mete Kural <metek at touchtonecorp dot com> wrote:
>>>> Hello Meor,
>>>>
>>>> Were you successful in getting U+0621 to render correctly in words
>>>> like al-aakhira in aya 2:4 and ya'aadamu in aya 2:33 with the new
>>>> font you're developing in both Windows and Linux? Can you use
>>>> U+0621 in al-aakhira and  have your font render it correctly or
>>>> does Uniscribe and Pango not allow you to do that?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Mete
>>>>
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