Re: [css-text] Shaping Isolation and Layout Separation of Inlines

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 11:27 AM, fantasai
<fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote:
> For Arabic, at least, it's always possible to get the right
> form by passing in ZWJ at the start/end of the run as necessary.
> I'm not sure that helps Indic at all, I don't really understand
> Indic shaping.

In other words, if the font format doesn't do character analysis, the
*browser* can do it, and insert fake characters for shaping purposes
at the start/end of runs.

~TJ