Re: Issues you'd like to see addressed

thanks Charles, Neil,

This does indeed relate to 
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3861.  To do due diligence, i 
raised a GH issue about it, though i doubt there'll be much more to say. 
See https://github.com/w3c/afrlreq/issues/1

Can i copy relevant bits of this email thread there?

I also raised another issue, as you'll see in the digest that goes out 
tomorrow, about hyphenation in african text.  (If you want to reply on 
that, please do so in the GH issue.) See
https://github.com/w3c/afrlreq/issues/2

cheers,
ri



On 05/07/2019 17:35, Neil Patel wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto:charles..riley@yale.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Richard,____
> 
>     __ __
> 
>     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.____
> 
>     __ __
> 
>     Charles Riley____
>

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