The sequence Ra,H,Ya in Bengali is ambigious and Unicode encoded that to
get Ya-Phalaa, one would place ZWJ before Halant. Ie. a ZWJ,H sequence
requests subjoining, while a H,ZWJ requests Half form. Implement that.
Bengali failures go down from 377 to 297 (0.0838308%).
Gujarati is down by 4 to 17 (0.0046384%).
Kannada is down by 226 to 957 (0.100534%).
Current status:
BENGALI: 353988 out of 354285 tests passed. 297 failed (0.0838308%)
DEVANAGARI: 693571 out of 693628 tests passed. 57 failed (0.00821766%)
GUJARATI: 366489 out of 366506 tests passed. 17 failed (0.0046384%)
GURMUKHI: 60750 out of 60809 tests passed. 59 failed (0.0970251%)
KANNADA: 950956 out of 951913 tests passed. 957 failed (0.100534%)
KHMER: 299094 out of 299124 tests passed. 30 failed (0.0100293%)
MALAYALAM: 1046857 out of 1048416 tests passed. 1559 failed (0.148701%)
ORIYA: 42320 out of 42329 tests passed. 9 failed (0.021262%)
SINHALA: 271699 out of 271847 tests passed. 148 failed (0.0544424%)
TAMIL: 1091837 out of 1091837 tests passed. 0 failed (0%)
TELUGU: 970524 out of 970573 tests passed. 49 failed (0.00504856%)
In Khmer coeng model, a V,Ra can go *after* matras. If it goes after a
split matra, it should be reordered to *before* the left part of such matra.
Khmer failures down from 136 to 39 (0.0130381%).
Apparently if there is C,V,ZWJ,C, the first C will be base, but if
it's C,ZWJ,V,C, the second one will be.
Note that Uniscribe implements this differently, by breaking syllable in
the case of C,ZWJ,V,C and putting the first consonant in one syllable
and the rest in the next syllable.
Sinhala failures down from 208 to 158 (0.0581209%). No changes to
Khmer.
Sinhala does not have half forms. And most (all?) consonants can be
base, except when preceded by ZWJ, which would request a subjoined form.
Hence switch the base algorithm to categorize with Khmer, start search
at start, and stop at a ZWJ.
Also, mark all pos=base consonants after base to be subjoined. Mark
base itself to have pos=base.
Finally, adjust Sinhala's reph position to after-main.
Brings down Sinhala failures from 455 to 328 (0.120656%).
If, say, a H,ZWJ,C ligature was formed, we don't want the code to detec
that as a Halant. So, ignore ligatures when matching category in
final_reordering.
Sinhala failures down from 514 to 455 (0.167374%).
Uniscribe reorders U+0E3A to be after U+0E38 and U+0E39. We do that by
modifying the ccc for U+0E3A.
Fixes the two remaining Thai failures (see previous commit).
Adjust the list of marks before SARA AM that get the reordering
treatment. Also adjust cluster formation to match Uniscribe.
With Wikipedia test data, now I see:
- For Thai, with the Angsana New font from Win7, I see 54 failures out
of over 4M tests (0.00129107%). Of the 54, two are legitimate
reordering issues (fix coming soon), and the other 52 are simply
Uniscribe using a zero-width space char instead of an unknown
character for missing glyphs. No idea why. The missing-glyph
sequences include one that is a Thai character followed by an Arabic
Sokun. Someone confused it with Nikhahit I assume!
- For Lao, with the Dokchampa font from Win7, 33 tests fail out of
54k (0.0615167%). All seem to be insignificant mark positioning
with two marks on a base. Have to investigate.
In Sinhala, Rakar is formed by Al-Lakuna,ZWJ,Ra. If you put that at the
end of a Consonant,Matra syllable, you get a dotted-circle from
Uniscribe. Apparently adding a ZWJ before the Al-Lakuna "fixes" that.
And people have been encoding that sequence... So, allow a forced
"ZWJ,Virama,ZWJ,Ra" sequence at the of syllables.
Fixes some 100 or more of Sinhala failures. Now at 622 only (0.23%).
POS_BASE can disappear if base ligated backward. Define base as last
with position not after base.
Fixes a few hundred of Sinhala failures with Iskoola Pota.
Mark stuff after a pre-base reordering Ro 'cfar'. Used in Khmer.
This allows distinguishing the following cases with MS Khmer fonts:
U+1784,U+17D2,U+179A,U+17D2,U+1782
U+1784,U+17D2,U+1782,U+17D2,U+179A
In Khmer, a final subjoined consonant or independent vowel can occur
after matras. This final subjoined thing should NOT be reordered to
before the matra even though it's subjoined.
Fixes another 1k of the Khmer failures. Not much left really.
Amend the syllable structure to allow a final subscripted consonant
(Coeng+C) and a final subscripted independent vowel (Coeng+V).
Fixes another 2k of Khmer failures.
Normally, we attach the Halant to the previous character and move it
with it. For after-base consonants however, the Halant "belongs" to the
consonant after, so attach it so.
This fixes Bengali sequences involving post-base consonant Ya, which
should ligate with the Halant to form Ya Phala, but previously a
reordered matras was blocking the ligation.
Seems like this is what Uniscribe is doing, and does not break any fonts
we tested (with Devanagari, Malayalam, Khmer, and Bengali), while fixing
some Ra Phala sequences for Bengali with Vrinda. Fixes another 2% of
Bengali failures (a couple more to go).
The spec says: "[{M}+[N]+[H]]", and that's what Uniscribe implements.
We instead do: "{M+[N]+[H]}", which means we allow Nukta and Halant
after all Matras, not just the last one. It makes more sense.
In the case of Consonant,LeftMatra,Halant, Uniscribe leaves the Halant
where it is, but we want to move it with the Matra as that makes more
logical sense.
U+0985 BENGALI LETTER A followed by U+09D7 BENGALI AU LENGTH MARK.
According to Bobby de Vos on the mailing list, this results in a dotted
circle with most shaping engines, but is a legitimate sequence in this
minority language.
We reached the consensus on the list to NOT implement dotted-circle
in HarfBuzz.
In hb_ot_tag_from_language(), if first component of an unknown
language is three letters long, use it directly as OpenType language
tag (after case conversion and padding).
Can be -1 for NUL-terminated string. This is useful for passing parts
of a larger string to a function without having to copy or modify the
string first.
Affected functions:
hb_tag_t hb_tag_from_string()
hb_direction_from_string()
hb_language_from_string()
hb_script_from_string()
For two reasons:
1. User can always call hb_buffer_pre_allocate() themselves, and
2. Now we do a pre_alloc in add_utfX anyway, so the total number of
reallocs is limited to a small number (~3) anyway. This just makes the
API cleaner.
Remove hb_ft_get_font_funcs() as it cannot be used by the user anyway.
Add hb_ft_font_set_funcs(). Which will make the font internally use
FreeType. That is, no need for the font to have created using the
hb-ft API. Just create using hb_face_create()/hb_font_create() and
then call this on the font (after having set font scale). This
internally creates an FT_Face and attached to the font.
hb_shape() now accepts a shaper_options and a shaper_list argument.
Both can be set to NULL to emulate previous API. And in most situations
they are expected to be set to NULL.
hb_shape() also returns a boolean for now. If shaper_list is NULL, the
return value can be ignored.
shaper_options is ignored for now, but otherwise it should be a
NULL-terminated list of strings.
shaper_list is a NULL-terminated list of strings. Currently recognized
strings are "ot" for native OpenType Layout implementation, "uniscribe"
for the Uniscribe backend, and "fallback" for the non-complex backend
(that will be implemented shortly). The fallback backend never fails.
The env var HB_SHAPER_LIST is also parsed and honored. It's a
colon-separated list of shaper names. The fallback shaper is invoked if
none of the env-listed shapers succeed.
New API hb_buffer_guess_properties() added.
Old HarfBuzz test suite always shaped as left-to-right and hence had wrong
0x14db, direction expected glyphstring for N'ko. Doh!
Failures down from 92 to 88.
Add compose() and decompose() unicode funcs. These implement
pair-wise canonical composition/decomposition.
The glib/icu implementations are lacking for now. We are adding
API for this to glib, but I cannot find any useful API in ICU.
May end of implementing these in-house.
Changed all unicode_funcs callback names to remove the "_get" part.
Eg, hb_unicode_get_script_func_t is now hb_unicode_script_func_t,
and hb_unicode_get_script() is hb_unicode_script() now.
Behdad Esfahbod