[HarfBuzz] Mirroring brackets

[hasen j]

Actually, Khadel answered me but it was apparently only sent to my email

Yes, HarfBuzz doesn't do that, it's part of the bidi algorithm, not the
shaping, and harfbuzz doesn't do bidi.

2010/1/15 Nicolas Lacombe <n.lacombe at gmail.com>

> no answear here?
>
> I ran into the same problem, actually I think it's because harfbuzz
> interpret the bracket as a different cluster from Arabic. Thus, the bracket
> are not mirrored. I guess it's therefore intended.
>
> 2009/12/27 hasen j <hasan.aljudy at gmail.com>
>
>>  I ran into a problem where it seemed like HarfBuzz wasn't doing any
>> bracket mirroring for arabic runs/items, even though I set the
>> item.bidiLevel to 1.
>>
>> When I looked at the code in harfbuzz-arabic.c, it seems to only do
>> mirroring in non-OT mode.
>>
>>
>>    #ifndef NO_OPENTYPE
>>        ....
>>        arabicSyrianOpenTypeShape(..) // doesn't do mirroring
>>        ....
>>        return
>>    #endif
>>
>>        shapedString(..) // does mirroring
>>
>> Is this a bug or the intended behavior? I noticed google chrome on
>> linux doesn't do bracket mirroring either.
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