[Indic-computing-devel] Re: Problem with freetype rendering of an Indic opentype font

[Arun S. <ar...@sh...>]

Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> I don't have time to investigate but it seems to me that some
> contextual shaping is happening.  If this is true it is not a problem
> of FreeType 2 (which doesn't support OpenType directly for the moment)
> but rather a problem one level higher where Indic scripts are handled,
> probably within the Pango library.  Owen?

Here's what the qt guys had to say about this:

> I did some tests, and it seem the problem is buried somewhere in the
> open type code used by both gtk and Qt.

I've personally verified that "0xcb7 0xccd" is not reordered by the 
shaping engines.

	-Arun