[XeTeX] combining characters in isolation

[Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)]

David Perry wrote:

> What I meant, given the context of the messages, was: if a font is
> intended to support Bengali--as I believe fonts that Mike was attempting
> to use were--then it should have all the Bengali Unicode characters and
> one should not get those blank boxes if one tries to display a character
> from that range in a document. If it doesn't have all the Unicode
> characters needed for a particular range, it's either a pre-Unicode font
> or a badly constructed one. Change "Bengali" to whatever language you
> need to work in at the moment.

Ah, now /that/ statement I can agree with :-)
** Phil.