On 7 Feb 2011, at 11:17, Alessandro Ceschini wrote:

> Now, gentlemen, since it's obvious a patch won't be released soon,

If someone submits a patch that corrects the underlying ICU issue, it could be 
"released soon", I expect. But it does depend on someone investing time and 
effort in writing the code. 

> I beg
> you to provide me a workaround that doesn't force me to undergo the epic
> effort of manually kerning the book.

A couple of possible workarounds: either modify the font file to avoid the 
issue (Adam's analysis makes it clear how this could be done) -- provided this 
is compatible with your license, of course -- or use a different typeface that 
doesn't exhibit the problem.

JK




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