[XeTeX] Xenotype font and Syriac scripting

[Khaled Hosny]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:43:29AM +0100, Petr Tomasek wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 06:19:16PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 04:12:21PM +0000, Gareth Hughes wrote:
> > > Fr. Michael Gilmary wrote:
> > > 
> > > It's the same here with Linux. Pango doesn't do Syriac yet, so most
> > > applications display unjoined glyphs.
> > 
> > Last time I checked, it did Syriac properly (except the abbreviation
> > sign.)
> > 
> > Regards,
> >  Khaled
> 
> It's broken. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=605870

Ah I see, but being broken in recent version is different than "doesn't
do Syriac yet", it feels like it never supported Syriac, which AFAIK not
true.

> Unfortunately, XeTeX and OOo are broken on Fedora 12 exactly the same way :-(

Since there is nothing in common between Pango and XeTeX/OOo, this feels
bit suspicious, are you sure it isn't a font specific issue?

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer