diff -uprw /home/otaylor/cvs/gnome2/pango-head/pango/opentype/ftxgpos.c ./opentype-munge/ftxgpos.c
--- /home/otaylor/cvs/gnome2/pango-head/pango/opentype/ftxgpos.c	2003-07-25 12:59:44.000000000 -0400
+++ ./opentype-munge/ftxgpos.c	2003-07-25 12:55:55.000000000 -0400
@@ -2375,7 +2376,13 @@
       j--;
     }
 
-    if ( property != TTO_BASE_GLYPH )
+    /*
+      According to the specs this should only be used on base glyphs, but MS mangal
+      defines the attachments for [Consonant+Nukta] in here (even though the ligature
+      [Consonant+Nukta] has TTO_LIGATURE property. Well, if the font is correctly built, there will
+      not be attachments to the ligatures defined here, so allowing this to proceed can't really hurt
+    */
+    if ( property != TTO_BASE_GLYPH && property != TTO_LIGATURE )
       return TTO_Err_Not_Covered;
 
     if ( i > in->pos )