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).
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.