Re: Issues you'd like to see addressed

Hello Richard, Charles,

Is this a question about zero-width space to control script connection? If
so, Adlam and N'ko have more consistent letter connection behavior than
Arabic so you don't have to insert zero-width spaces to alter shaping
behavior. The exception is with programs like InDesign that don't really
recognize N'ko or Adlam properly. Then you have to insert
zero-width-non-joiners after letters at the end of the word that also have
a diacritic and in between words and script specific punctuation.

So far with 'Ajami we haven't seen the a need for it if the shaping engine
is following the Arabic.txt guidelines.

-Neil

On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 12:25 PM Riley, Charles <charles.riley@yale.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Richard,
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> Sorry for the delay in responding on the zero width space question.  I
> brought this up with Andrew Cunningham, and he is not aware of fonts for
> N’ko or Adlam that support the zero width space.  That said, it may still
> be of some relevance to how these scripts and ‘Ajami are handled.
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> Charles Riley
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