See thread "an issue regarding discrepancy between Korean and Unicode
standards" on the mailing list for the rationale. In short: Uniscribe
doesn't, so fonts are designed to work without it.
Before, for most scripts, we were not trying to recompose two characters
if the second one had ccc=0. That fails for Myanmar where U+1026
decomposes to U+1025,U+102E, both of which have ccc=0. However, we do
want to try to recompose those. We now check whether the second is a
mark, using general category instead.
At the same time, remove optimization that was conflicting with this.
[Let the Ngapi hackfest begin!]
Had to do some refactoring to make this happen...
Under uniscribe bug compatibility mode, we still plit them
Uniscrie-style, but Jonathan and I convinced ourselves that there is no
harm doing this the Unicode way. This change makes that happen, and
unbreaks free Sinhala fonts.
No panic, we reeally insert dotted circle when it's absolutely broken.
Fixes most of the dotted-circle cases against Uniscribe. (for Devanagari
fixes 80% of them, for Khmer 70%; the rest look like Uniscribe being
really bogus...)
I had to make a decision. Apparently Uniscribe adds one dotted circle
to each broken character. I tried that, but that goes wrong easily with
split matras. So I made it add only one dotted circle to an entire
broken syllable tail. As in: "if there was a dotted circle here, this
would have formed a correct cluster." That works better for split
stuff, and I like it more.
The change is very subtle. If we have a single-char cluster that
decomposes to three or more characters, then try recomposition, in
case the farther mark may compose with the base.
Essentially move the glyph mapping to normalization process.
The effect on Devanagari is small (but observable). Should be more
observable in simple text, like ASCII.
Behdad Esfahbod