Just put it before base, which is what's expected.
Malayalam failures down from 1559 to 1197 (0.114172%).
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: 1047219 out of 1048416 tests passed. 1197 failed (0.114172%)
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%)
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%).
That's really what Uniscribe does, and explains a lot of pecularities of
Halant,ZWNJ before the base.
Sent Telugu from 1% failures to 0.03%. Improved Kannada and Malayalam
slightly. Fixed half of Bengali, and did NOT break anything!
Following what the spec says.
Brings down Telugu failures from 40% to 3.75%, and Kannada failures from
44% to 10%. Does NOT affect other scripts' test results.
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.
Behdad Esfahbod