A smart component trick for adjusting spacing in Devanagari conjuncts while keeping automatic alignment intact in Glyphs
https://muthunedumaran.com/2025/12/30/a-spacer-trick-for-conjunct-spacing-in-glyphs/
Muthu Nedumaran
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Typeface designer, font and software engineer. Author of MN and Sangam MN fonts, Hibizcus font tools, Murasu Anjal, Sellinam, MobileJawi and Sangam Keyboards
Venkatarangan ThirumalaiNoticed a Tamil text-handling issue in Qt Framework’s Text Editor Control (possibly Windows-level Unicode handling).
When using Left Arrow or Shift+Left Arrow, cursor moves or selects multiple Tamil letters instead of one. Example: In the word "செய்தேன்" try to select “தே” also highlights “ய்” (see video).
Mouse selection works correctly. Hope Qt, Windows, & Unicode teams can check this.
@muthu FYI
People unfamiliar with a script always see new possibilities in the strokes—details and variations we overlook when we know it too well :D
Saw this after my walk in the park today. What could have caused the கால் (vowel sign aa) in வெங்காயம் to drop down from the baseline 🤔
தொ - This is composed with த (U+0BA4) + ொ (U+0BCC). The two part vowel sign decomposes as ெ (U+0BC6) and ா (U+0BBE). CoreText accepts only this order but Harfbuzz accepts the vowel signs in the reverse order too. Which one is doing it right?
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The dot above the Tamil letter ப is, ‘pulli’, a non-spacing mark, positioned with GPOS. When the character spacing in the text is reduced, InDesign handles it really well. Maintains consistent spacing between letters, ignoring the zero width mark - but not Pages, TextEdit or Word. I checked Word for Mac. I believe Word for Windows will be the same. Is this just a bug or simply unsupported?
