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28.1; Support for the Kharoṣṭhī Script

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From: Stefan Baums <baums <at> stefanbaums.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 55539 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#55539: 28.1; Support for the Kharoṣṭhī Script
Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 20:05:54 +0200

> With Kharosthi Unicode, out of the following three examples, the
> middle one (consonant + modifier + vowel) has its
> vowel attached incorrectly
>
>   𐨗𐨸𐨁 𐨣𐨸𐨁 𐨐𐨿𐨮𐨸𐨁
>
> Cf. 𐨣𐨸𐨁 with modifier with 𐨣𐨁 without modifier:

[IMAGE]

> All look fine with Segoe UI Historic, however.

I tried these two in Icecat, and Kharosthi Unicode (as opposed to
Segoe UI Historic) shows the same problem there, which makes me
think it is a font issue.

In other words, my code seems to be correct in as much as it
produces exactly the same rendering in Emacs as in Icecat with
Harfbuzz.

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