[XeTeX] Devanagari Nukta problem

[Alastair M. Paterson]

Hi Yves!

Well, that (swapping the vowel and nukta) certainly made a difference 
(i.e. worked) - both in XeTeX and Wordpad. I'll have to confirm that the 
source files need changing.

Many thanks

Alastair

Yves Codet wrote:

>Le 7 avr. 08 à 08:01, Alastair M. Paterson a écrit :
>
>  
>
>>Hi!
>>
>>Some Devanagari is being typeset using XeTeX (MikTex 2.7).
>>
>>When the combination of: consonant + short i + nukta (unicode:  
>>consonant
>>+ 0947 + 0937) is used, the nukta is being displayed as the unicode
>>dotted circle with the nukta beneath it rather than having the nukta
>>appearing correctly beneath the consonant.
>>    
>>
>
>I had a look at the latest version of Unicode (http://www.unicode.org/ 
>versions/Unicode5.1.0/, under "South Asian Scripts - I"), and it  
>reads (p. 306):
>
>The nukta sign, which modifies a consonant form, is placed  
>immediately after the
>consonant in the memory representation and is attached to that  
>consonant in rendering.
>If the consonant represents a dead consonant, then NUKTA should precede
>VIRAMA in the memory representation.
>
>  
>
>>If this character combination is typed into Wordpad, for example, and
>>using the same font, it is rendered correctly.
>>    
>>
>
>It seems Wordpad is wrong in this case :)
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Yves
>
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