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I'm not fluent in any language (except maybe English), but this was my job on Android for about five years, and I still have my hand in. I got very good at bein

I'm not fluent in any language (except maybe English), but this was my job on Android for about five years, and I still have my hand in. I got very good at being able to spot various forms of incorrect rendering, and of course called in the experts when needed. One of my favorite examples was Devanagari shaping. In the word ट्विटर (tvitar = Twitter), does the "i" matra shape before the "tv" it in the middle of it? In my sample, people accepted it either way (and you'll see both depending on font), but there are lots of examples where one is just wrong.

rk06 7y ago
As "Twitter" is a foreign word.there is no set standard to it. If I were to write it, I would write "tv" first. And draw an extended variant of "I" to cover "tv" In text rendering, this translates to a custom ligature for an unexpected combo. I am not sure how feasible it is to add ligatures for every such combos In real life, as long as the reader "gets" it, they would assume that it is the right way to write it :)