AGLFN: ZWJ, ZWNJ, ZWS in PDF
Indesign is not written ZWJ (U+200D), ZWNJ (U+200C), ZWS (U+200B) with its glyph name uni200D, uni200C, uni200B respectively.
This is not helping in copying the text with ZWJ (U+200D), ZWNJ (U+200C), ZWS (U+200B) from PDF.
These non-printing characters are copied has "space" instead.
These non-printing characters in Indic scripts are part of text. With and without these characters, text can changes its meaning.
Please support these characters with AGLFN glyph names in fonts in Indesign, PDF export feature.
More info
https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/agl-aglfn/issues/1#issuecomment-323822117
Chandra
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Håkan Davidsson
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I am using InDesign version 13.1 x64
Problem: In Microsoft Word 2010 we type a ZWNJ+ZWJ to get the correct form of the next to the last character and the last character. That is next last character should be final form and the last final. When we copy this word into InDesign the next to the last character GA U+182D should be final form and the U+1826 UE vowel should be final form. The GA becomes initial form and the UE also becomes initial form.
Steps to duplicate:
1. Open the attached Word document called Mongolian word with ZWNJ and ZWJ
2. Open the attached InDesign layout called ZWNJ-ZWJ
3. From the Word document copy the word and past it into your own InDesign layout since we could not attach ours.
4. The result is what we describe in the problem description aboveSee our attached screenshot of our Word document and InDesign layout
It seems that Unicode Consortium is in the process of recommending to use U+180F for this type of the root+suffix words but it is not yet available. So, as far as we know our only solution for now is to use the combination of ZWNJ+ZWJ.
We hope you will be able to fix the problem so that the behavior in InDesign is the same as in Word. Because we use the same font in InDesign namely Noto Sans Mongolian.
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Håkan Davidsson
commented
I am using InDesign version 13.1 x64
Problem: In Microsoft Word 2010 we type a ZWNJ+ZWJ to get the correct form of the next to the last character and the last character. That is next last character should be final form and the last final. When we copy this word into InDesign the next to the last character GA U+182D should be final form and the U+1826 UE vowel should be final form. The GA becomes initial form and the UE also becomes initial form.
Steps to duplicate:
1. Open the attached Word document called Mongolian word with ZWNJ and ZWJ
2. Open the attached InDesign layout called ZWNJ-ZWJ
3. From the Word document copy the word and past it into the InDesign layout
4. The result is what we describe in the problem description aboveIt seems that Unicode Consortium is in the process of recommending to use U+180F for this type of the root+suffix words but it is not yet available. So, as far as we know our only solution for now is to use the combination of ZWNJ+ZWJ.
We hope you will be able to fix the problem so that the behavior in InDesign is the same as in Word. Because we use the same font in InDesign namely Noto Sans Mongolian.
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Chandra
commented
Adobe indesign CS6
version 8.0
