{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/googlei18n/noto-fonts/issues/473","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/googlei18n/noto-fonts/issues/473/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/googlei18n/noto-fonts/issues/473/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/googlei18n/noto-fonts/issues/473/events","html_url":"https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts/issues/473","id":99703841,"number":473,"title":"Malayalam needs to support the Unicode 8.0 Virama and joiner sequences","user":{"login":"roozbehp","id":302255,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/302255?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/roozbehp","html_url":"https://github.com/roozbehp","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/roozbehp/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/roozbehp/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/roozbehp/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/roozbehp/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/roozbehp/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/roozbehp/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/roozbehp/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/roozbehp/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/roozbehp/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/googlei18n/noto-fonts/labels/Script-Malayalam","name":"Script-Malayalam","color":"e11d21"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":{"login":"cibu","id":1966942,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1966942?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/cibu","html_url":"https://github.com/cibu","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cibu/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cibu/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cibu/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cibu/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cibu/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cibu/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cibu/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cibu/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cibu/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"milestone":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/googlei18n/noto-fonts/milestones/2","html_url":"https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts/milestones/Phase%20III","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/googlei18n/noto-fonts/milestones/2/labels","id":1212062,"number":2,"title":"Phase III","description":"","creator":{"login":"xiangyexiao","id":12721521,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/12721521?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/xiangyexiao","html_url":"https://github.com/xiangyexiao","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/xiangyexiao/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/xiangyexiao/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/xiangyexiao/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/xiangyexiao/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/xiangyexiao/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/xiangyexiao/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/xiangyexiao/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/xiangyexiao/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/xiangyexiao/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"open_issues":34,"closed_issues":0,"state":"open","created_at":"2015-07-16T23:15:47Z","updated_at":"2015-08-07T18:32:28Z","due_on":null,"closed_at":null},"comments":6,"created_at":"2015-08-07T18:32:28Z","updated_at":"2015-08-13T09:59:35Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Unicode 8.0 adds a mechanism for selecting various forms of Malayalam conjuncts. The actual Core Specification is still pending publication (it will be available in a few weeks), but until then, the best documentation available is at http://www.unicode.org/review/pri263/pri263-malayalam.pdf.\r\n\r\nAssigning to @cibu to provide a complete list of needed conjuncts and the sequences that are supposed to generate them, so they could be added to the fonts.\r\n\r\nCC-ing @behdad and @JelleBosmaMT in case any changes may be required to HarfBuzz."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/googlei18n/noto-fonts/issues/comments/130598282","html_url":"https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts/issues/473#issuecomment-130598282","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/googlei18n/noto-fonts/issues/473","id":130598282,"user":{"login":"cibu","id":1966942,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1966942?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/cibu","html_url":"https://github.com/cibu","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cibu/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cibu/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cibu/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cibu/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cibu/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cibu/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cibu/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cibu/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/cibu/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-08-13T09:59:35Z","updated_at":"2015-08-13T09:59:35Z","body":"Supporting the spec for optional ligatures can be lot of work for reformed orthography fonts like Noto Malayalam Sans; as many additional glyphs available in an traditional orthography script needs to be supported. For example, KA + ZWJ + VIRAMA + RA should return a connected ligature.\r\n\r\nSo question would be how much more are we willing to draw. Depending on the answer we can come up with a subset of relevant traditional ligatures."}}