Bug#349657: This is a font bug

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

reassign 349657 ttf-freefont
severity 349657 important
thanks

Am Mittwoch 25 Januar 2006 02:45 schrieb Yitzchak Gale:
> I now believe that this is a bug in
> the fonts. It is still a mystery to me
> why this problem only occurs in the
> Debian build, though.

Might be because we use a newer icu (system-icu) and/or
some fontconfig things.

> Please forward this bug to
> ttf-freefont, and upgrade severity
> to important.

Doing.

> In the freetype fonts, the OpenType
> feature tag for the Alef-Lamed ligature (0xFB4F)
> is "liga", which means "Standard Ligature".
> That implies that the ligature is mandatory.
>
> But this ligature certainly should not be
> mandatory. The correct feature tag for this
> ligature should be "dlig", which means
> "Discretionary Ligature". See the OpenType
> specification document for Hebrew at:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otfntdev/hebrewot/features.aspx
>
> When I make this change in the SFD source
> file and recompile using fontforge, the problem is
> fixed.

Thanks for the info.

Regards,

Rene
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