[XeTeX] XeTeX 0.9999.0 released

[Khaled Hosny]

Hi,

I can not really tell if this is a bug or a feature, bug HarfBuzz
normalization is independent of input normalization to technically the
input text is not normalised, but it makes little difference with the
PDF output.

If you still think this is an issue, please raise it again on HarfBuzz
mailing list since your old message went unanswered.

Regards,
Khaled

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:55:24PM +0900, Dohyun Kim wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This new version seems to do unicode normalization (NFC) by default.  It
> was not the case of previous version of xetex, as far as
> \XeTeXinputnormalization=1 is not declared explicitly.
> 
> The new feature (or bug) affects pre-modern Hangul texts typeset with some
> fonts, eg. Malgun Gothic bundled with windows 8.  To work around, I have to
> insert ZWJ or ZWNJ between initial consonant and vowel, which is not a
> common practice in Korea.  Attached are sample tex file and pdf.
> 
> Anyway, this issue is related to my posting avaliable at
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/harfbuzz/2012-April/001896.html .
> As I do not think it is a bug of harfbuzz or other library, I did not
> respond any more.  I believe that font developers should cope with that
> case, and there are some fonts that give us correct output even without ZWJ
> or ZWNJ.
> 
> Now with new xetex version, however, this new feature seems to conflict
> with the primitive \XeTeXinputnormalization. So not just a feature but a
> bug.
> 
> Best,
> 
> 
> 
> 2013/3/15 Simon Cozens <simon at simon-cozens.org>
> 
> > On 14/03/2013 22:11, George N. White III wrote:
> > >     OS X packages work beautifully.
> > > Which OS X version please?
> >
> > 10.8.2 here.
> >
> >
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> 
> -- 
> Dohyun Kim
> College of Law, Dongguk University
> Seoul, Republic of Korea



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