[Devel] Problem with freetype rendering of an Indic opentype font

[Arun Sharma]

I see a problem with the freetype rendering of this unicode string:

"0xcb7 0xccd"

Using Microsoft tunga.ttf (A kannada font that ships with Windows XP).
In fact, the problem manifests itself with all other consonants too,
including 0xcb7.

Here are the screenshots to demonstrate the wrong and the right rendering:

http://www.sharma-home.net/~adsharma/misc/wrong.jpg
http://www.sharma-home.net/~adsharma/misc/right.jpg

The problem is seen with both gnome and kde on Linux with Redhat Beta
(Severn) - freetype-2.1.4-4.0.

Can one of you tell me if this is a broken font or a bug in freetype ?

        -Arun