bug#34035: 26.1; Arabic shadda-kasrah renders incorrectly

[Basil L. Contovounesios]

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
>> Cc: stefan@marxist.se,  34035@debbugs.gnu.org,  craven@gmx.net
>> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 17:18:36 +0100
>> 
>> Emacs and hb-view seem to be in agreement:
>
> Thanks.  I posted a question to the HarfBuzz list; you can follow it
> at
>
>   https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/harfbuzz/2020-August/007540.html

Thanks.  So far the consensus there seems to be that this is intended
and not wrong:

Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham@ntlworld.com> writes:

> There is no evidence of a fault.  The TUS claims that
> kesra between shadda and the consonant came in with metal type.
> Basically, there are two different styles, one with kesra below the
> consonant and one with it below the shadda.  I don't have details of
> what is preferred where, or its social stratification.
>
> Wright (available at www.ghazali.org/arabic/WrightArabicGrammarVol1.pdf
> ), in §11 Remark (e) ɡives a slightly different story and some attempt
> at an indication of regional variation.

Jonathan Kew <jfkthame@gmail.com> writes:

> Yes; how the combination renders is up to the font.
>
> Some fonts even provide a user-selectable feature to control it, e.g. 
> https://software.sil.org/scheherazade/support/smart-font-features/.

I'm therefore closing this report.

-- 
Basil