Re: Composing Hebrew diacriticals

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 13:35:42 +0900
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> >>> 3. Letter Yod (U+5D9) composed with Hiriq (U+5B4) is composed into
> >>> presentation form (U+FB1D). This should only happen with specific
> >>> control (Either CGJ or ZWJ I'll check).
> > >
> > > I tried to show that sequence with gedit and and firefox.
> > > Both show it with U+FB1D.
> 
> > Kate show this as well, Firefox doesn't. Nevertheless it's still a bug.
> 
> Then what is the correct rendering of the sequence "\u05D9\u05B4"?
> Applying only `mark' feature?  With dejavu sans font, U+FB1D
> has lower dot above baseline, but just applying `mark'
> feature results in displaying dot below baseline.
> 
> See the attached image.  The left one is the composition
> with `ccmp' GSUB feature (i.e. into U+FB1D) for the sequence
> "\u05D9\u200D\u05B4", and the right one is the composition
> with `mark' GPOS feature for the sequence "\u05D9\u05B4".
> Is this the correct rendering?

IMHO, U+FB1D looks quite ugly with this font, but I guess that's not
really the issue here.  Otherwise, looks good to me, although I'm far
from being an expert on Hebrew typesetting.