World-Ready Composer, Non-spacing accent, Auto switch to combined character
Hello,
I am experiencing a problem on two different computers with various fonts. Details of the scenario are as follows:
- Windows 10
- InDesign CS6
- using Adobe World-Ready composer (both single-line and paragraph)
- each computer uses a different complex script plugin
The problem is that when I type "a" and follow with "ʾ" (U+02BE; which is the hamza diacritic) there is an automatic switch to "ẚ" (U+1E9A; which is a combined character). The problem is I do not want the combined character but want the hamza to have its own width, as is normally the case.
I turned off ligatures but this had no effect.
The problem does not occur with the standard Adobe composers.
I have included a screenshot to show the desired (i.e. standard composer) and undesired (i.e. world-ready composer) behavior. Any help in dealing with this problem will be appreciated. I am not sure if this effects other characters. The desired presentation (e.g. lines 2 and 4 in the screenshot) is required in the transliteration of languages which use the Arabic script and is widely used in the academic fields of Middle East and Islamic studies, for example.
As a side note, the position of the diacritic on top of the base character is actually a mistake introduced in Unicode 3.0 and corrected in Unicode 5.1
It is a shame that the mistake has found its way into fonts and that the world-ready composer appears to force the mistake upon users.
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