On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 07:41:19PM +0000, Pip Cet wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 7:27 PM <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

[...]

> > But how should a backend guess where the subparts of a cluster are
> > without the font providing it?
> 
> Well, of course it shouldn't. It should return the information that is
> available [...]

> > And in the latter case, HarfBuzz
> > does give us the info.
> 
> How so? I honestly don't think it does, because it would treat the
> ligature as one glyph.

Eli and Clément already looked it up for us: hb_ot_layout_get_ligature_carets()

Cheers
-- t