Re: Hebrew diacritics in incorrect positions

Eduardo Castineyra <[email protected]> Tue, 21 May 2013 17:32:44 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.internationalization.fribidi
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Thanks Dov.

El 20/05/2013 18:33, Dov Grobgeld escribió:
> T
> ​ he Unicode bi-directional algorithm, which FriBidi implements, does 
> not deal with positions of glyphs at all, but only with the glyph 
> order, and in some cases with glyph substitutions. To get correct 
> positioning you must use a shaping engine (e.g. pango or the more low 
> level Harfbuzz). Especially for something as subtle as Hebrew 
> diacritics positioning.​
>
> Regards,
> Dov
>
>
> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Eduardo Castineyra 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     When I pass this text to fribidi:
>
>     זָקֵף גָּד֕וֹל
>
>     I get all the diacritics in incorrect positions.
>
>     Is there a way to extract the correct positions of the characters,
>     without having to use a glyph-based shaping engine?
>
>     Thanks!
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