Character Shaping Character shaping occurs when the shape of a character is dependent on its position in a line of text. In some languages, such as Arabic, characters have different shapes depending on their position in a string and on the surrounding characters. The characters have different shapes, depending on their position in a string and on the surrounding characters. The written language is cursive. Most characters of a word are connected, as in English handwriting.
Joined characters can form nonspacing characters.
Additionally, a character can have a vowel or diacritic mark written over or under it. Characters can vary in length, resulting in an output of two coded shapes. Methods of Character Shaping Implement character shaping separately from other system components. However, character shaping should be accessible as a utility by other system components. The system stores these characters in their shaped format.