Bug 16113

Summary:	Armenian ligature "u+0587" not optional
Product:	DejaVu	Reporter:	Vahe Garabedian <garvhe>
Component:	Sans	Assignee:	Deja Vu bugs <dejavu-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Vahe Garabedian 2008-05-27 05:38:13 UTC

When I write ե (u+0565) and ւ (u+0582) characters, they are automatically replaced by և (u+0587) ligature.

Expected Results:
There should be no automatic replacement. և (u+0587) must be an optional ligature like the other armenian ligatures(u+FB13 to u+FB17).

Version:
Dejavu 2.25

Comment 1 nocturnaldreamer 2008-07-06 17:35:01 UTC

Forgive my ignorance, but is this true for both traditional and reformed orthography?

Comment 2 Vahe Garabedian 2008-07-17 11:48:44 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Forgive my ignorance, but is this true for both traditional and reformed
> orthography?
> 

In traditional orthography, և character is considered as a ligature like ﬓ (մ+ն), ﬔ (մ+ե), ﬕ (մ+ի), ﬖ (վ+ն) and ﬗ (մ+խ).

In reformed orthography, և character is no more a ligature, but is a completely distinct letter like the other letters of armenian alphabet. Furthermore, և character is accessible from keyboard for thus who want to use reformed orthography.

The problem I noticed is, if automatic և ligature is enabled, it is not possible to write ե + ւ (displaying two distinct letters).

I hope I answered your question.

You may find more information about armenian alphabet and և character in the following link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_alphabet

Comment 3 nocturnaldreamer 2008-07-25 09:24:28 UTC

Thank you for the information, fixed in svn.

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