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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
> Cc: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>,  contovob@tcd.ie,
>   34035@debbugs.gnu.org,  stefan@marxist.se,  craven@gmx.net
> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2020 11:26:53 +0200
> 
> I agree with the latter sentence (and indeed this thread taught me that
> both renderings are legitimate), yet it seems unlikely to me that
> e.g. the designers of DejaVu Sans and DejaVu Sans Mono deliberately made
> this stylistic distinction between these two fonts.  And if not, and if
> these two fonts display shadda-kasra combinations the same under
> m17n-lib (I cannot test that right now), then that would indeed indicate
> a bug in HarfBuzz/Cairo.

I very much doubt that there's such a bug in HarfBuzz, but if this is
indeed a HarfBuzz bug, it should be reported to the HarfBuzz
developers.  So far none of them spoke up in the thread I started on
their list (which is one more evidence that there's no bug here).