Re: Entering emojis

[Gregory Heytings]

> > Here they are.  One with Noto Sans, one with the free Aegyptus font, 
> > and one with the latest Aegyptus font.  As far as I can see, the X001 
> > and Q003 hieroglyphs are (correctly?) combined, which is (I guess) what 
> > you wanted to see.
>
> Thanks, but that's not how this is supposed to look.  It should look 
> like here:
>
>  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt#Historical_development
>
> The layout in the vertical direction is completely incorrect in all of 
> the images you show.  Basically, it looks like the vertical layout of 
> hieroglyphs above other hieroglyphs is either unsupported or doesn't 
> work.

It should, again if you look at the PDF I linked earlier, you'll see many 
examples of up to four glyphs combined together, vertically and 
horizontally.

> Maybe I made mistakes in the composition machinery, and that's why it 
> doesn't display correctly.  But it sounds unlikely, because I see in 
> your images glyphs that shouldn't be there (they are control characters 
> which should disappear from display).  Or maybe HarfBuzz doesn't yet 
> support this script well enough.

All this is possible, indeed, and I'd even say probable.