[XeTeX] bug in polyglossia/sanskrit? (problem with diacritical marks)

[François Patte]

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Le 15/05/2019 à 02:06, Dominik Wujastyk a écrit :
> 
> I don't think it's the font.  I've just tried this MWE with several
> font choices,
> 
> \documentclass{book} \usepackage{polyglossia} 
> \setdefaultlanguage{sanskrit} \setmainfont{Sanskrit 2003} 
> \begin{document} ā ī ū ṛ ṝ ḷ ḹ ṭ ḍ ṅ ś ṣ ḥ \end{document}
> 
> Sanskrit 2003 gives this: image.png Murty Sanskr̥it gives: 
> image.png So there's definitely something wrong that isn't local to
> one font.
> 
> If we remove the \setdefaultlanguage{sanskrit} line, all is well.
> 

And what is strange is that  \setdefaultlanguage{sanskrit} just add
the use of 2 packages: gloss-sanskrit.ldf and devanagaridigits.sty
which are exactly the same in TL2018 and TL2019.

Something wrong in latex3 engine?
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