On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:00:46AM -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > On 12-09-10 02:36 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote: > > On 2/9/12 05:07, Khaled Hosny wrote: > >> > >> Ideally, I think hamza and madda should come first, then shadda, then > >> the vowel marks then everything else: > >> > >> * hamzat and maddat: U+0653-U+0655, U+065F, U+0674, U+06E4 > >> * shadda: U+0651 > >> * vowel marks: U+064B-U+0650, U+0652, U+0656-U+065E, U+08F0-U+08F2 > >> > > > > The ordering of madda and vowel marks was raised on the Unicode list in July > > 2011, and at that point the responses indicated that madda should *follow* > > vowel marks; see > > http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2011-m07/0143.html and its > > replies. > > Anyone wants to summarize the conclusions here? I like to address this. > We're in much better shape code-wise to fix this now.
As for madda, Jonathan is right; it should indeed follow other marks, I don’t know what I was thinking. Some testing with people working on texts with heavy use of marks, showed that U+065C and U+06EC should precede vowel marks (but still follow the hamza). Regards, Khaled _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list HarfBuzz@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz