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bug #52382: Complications regarding U+0D31 MALAYALAM LETTER RRA

Submitter:  David Corbett <dscorbett>
Submitted:  Fri 10 Nov 2017 12:33:04 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  individual character(s) Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  character substitution issue Status:  Fix posted
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  Stevan_White
Open/Closed:  Open Release:  * development
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Sat 11 Nov 2017 03:36:12 PM UTC, comment #3: 

The below-base rra is not centered below the rra in FreeSans and FreeSans Bold.

David Corbett <dscorbett>
Sat 11 Nov 2017 01:23:36 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Regarding the self-standing, vertical rra+rra. This was a bit of a mess due to some constraints. 

First I didn't like to make a ligature of the stacked glyph, because usinge the available glyphs un-altered, it would be too tall to fit the BB.  But I want to associate the conjunct early for 'mlm2', and support the horizontal subscript form of rrarra. 

I ended up first selectively substituting the subscript rrarra, and if that doesn't happen, decompose the temporary auxiliary rrarra so that the below-form of the second rra could be substituted.  Could it have been done better?  Sure.

Steve White <Stevan_White>
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Fri 10 Nov 2017 11:20:18 AM UTC, comment #1: 

These are two separate issues.

The second affects two combinations that I know of:
    &#x0d28;&#x0d4d;&#x0d31; <br />
    &#x0d7b;&#x0d4d;&#x0d31;
But it is font-independent.  That is, this is a bug, but it appears not to be a font bug.

The first is a matter of cross purposes of the auxiliary glyph mal_rrarra.  That is formed as a step in forming the below-base glyph for the combination, but it shouldn't be formed in non-below-base situations.  I'll have to think about it.

Steve White <Stevan_White>
Group administrator
Fri 10 Nov 2017 12:33:04 AM UTC, original submission:  

Section 12.9 of The Unicode Standard 10.0, pages 506–507, describe U+0D31 MALAYALAM LETTER RRA. FreeSans and FreeSerif do not fully follow the standard.

“The sequence <0D31, 0D4D, 0D31> is rendered as ⸦ṟa with below-base ṟa⸧” but FreeFont renders it as a ṟa followed by a ṟa.

“The sequence <0D7B, 0D4D, 0D31> is rendered as ⸦chillu n with below-base ṟa⸧” but FreeFont renders it as a chillu n with a candrakkala followed by a ṟa.

David Corbett <dscorbett>

 

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