I haven't seen the examples since my tablet refuses to display them, but I
wonder if you have run into a difference between Hindi and Marathi
typography. The repha in Marathi is sometimes represented as a slightly
curved stroke between two letters. Googling "eyelash repha" I found this:

http://unicode.org/~emuller/iwg/p8/utcdoc.html

Den fre 19 okt 2018 13:30Ulrike Fischer <news3@nililand.de> skrev:

> Am Fri, 19 Oct 2018 11:36:48 +0200 schrieb Arthur Reutenauer:
>
> >> Screenshots and code that show the difference and the missing accent
> >> in the xelatex and context output are in this comment
>
> >> https://github.com/u-fischer/luaotfload/issues/9#issuecomment-431288932
>
> >> the older (perfect) output is in a comment above
> >> https://github.com/u-fischer/luaotfload/issues/9#issuecomment-426978522
> >
> >   The missing “accent” is a repha, a form of the consonant ra.  It seems
> > to have been replaced by a middle dot, to the right of the base
> > consonant.  I can’t be completely sure because it’s protruding into the
> > next consonant so it’s almost indistinguishable from it, but I think
> > that’s what happened.
>
> Yes, good catch. there is a dot. But I'm wondering if I saw ghosts
> when thinking that it worked before. I can't find no commit which
> changes to the "right" output and also in a older context it is
> wrong.
>
>
>
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> Ulrike Fischer
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