[XeTeX] Combining pair of vowels to single base char in Hebrew

[Khaled Hosny]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 04:11:43PM -0800, Gildas Hamel wrote:
> * Skriv a reas mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca (mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca):
>   |>  
>   |>  What version of XeTeX are you using?  Are the fonts involved freely
>   |>  available?
>   |> 
> I'm using XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-0.9999.3 (TeX Live 2013), and in my preamble, a simple
> \newfontfamily\hebrewfont[Script=Hebrew]{SBL Hebrew} % or Ezra SIL; NewJerusalemU

I can reproduce this issue with the latest XeTeX release, but not with
the development version linked with the latest HarfBuzz, so I think it
was a bug in the HarfBuzz version used in TeX Live 2013.

There is no immediate fix, unfortunately (apart from building XeTeX
yourself, or using a Linux distro packages that uses an up to date
HarfBuzz).

Regards,
Khaled
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