[HarfBuzz] Indic expertise wanted

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Mon Jun 13 11:48:29 PDT 2011


On 06/08/11 23:50, Harshula wrote:
> Hi Behdad,
> 
> For the sake of future maintainability would you please consider
> splitting the Indic shaping module into at least 3 respective script
> families? We really should avoid what happened with the Pango Indic
> module where we had special cases everywhere for each of the script
> families. IIRC, it got to the stage where no one knew what impact even
> tiny changes would have on unrelated scripts.

I know that problem very well, and am working on a solution to address it.
Having more shapers doesn't really solve it though.

behdad



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