Discuss widespread bad shaping practices

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A tool-independent explanation of the logic and techniques behind Indic text shaping.

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Discuss widespread bad shaping practices #20

Open lianghai opened 4 years ago

lianghai commented 4 years ago

The following shaping practices are commonly seen in fonts, but are ill-advised. Discuss them and provide recommendations.

Gurmukhi

tippi → bindi / [ascender] _: https://github.com/EkType/Mukta/issues/34
dda nukta → rra: https://github.com/n8willis/opentype-shaping-documents/issues/95

dscorbett commented 4 years ago

A lot of Arabic fonts ligate <U+0627 ARABIC LETTER ALEF, U+0644 ARABIC LETTER LAM, U+0644 ARABIC LETTER LAM, U+0647 ARABIC LETTER HEH> into a glyph that includes U+0651 ARABIC SHADDA and U+0670 ARABIC LETTER SUPERSCRIPT ALEF.