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Text units for letter-spacing are incorrect #101

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r12a opened this issue Feb 5, 2020 · 2 comments
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Text units for letter-spacing are incorrect #101

r12a opened this issue Feb 5, 2020 · 2 comments

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r12a commented Feb 5, 2020

For various reasons wherever a word needs to be broken in constituent characters in case of Latin script, Indian language words can and should be broken based on Akshara as given here for a case of Devanagari script here

As the W3C specification points to Unicode Text Segmentation (TR 29), it is observed that some of the browsers support it (e.g. Chrome and Firefox) whereas Microsoft Edge and Interner Explorer seems to break the words in individual characters.

It has been marked as basic as the Unicode Text Segmentation rules themselves need to be matured enough to cater to nuances of many languages that get written using Gurmukhi script. Some of the languages like Santali, require some special Nukta rules.

Also, in cases where there is wrong Akshara formation e.g. Consonant+Matra+Matra, the breaking seems to stack ill formed akshara into one set instead of clearly breaking it separate. This breaking behaviour needs to improve.

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r12a commented Feb 5, 2020

The first comment in this issue contains text that will automatically appear in the Gurmukhi gap-analysis document as a subsection with the same title as this issue. Any edits made to that comment will be immediately available in the document. Proposals for changes or discussion of the content can be made in comments below this point.

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r12a commented May 11, 2021

Closing in favour of #117.

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