<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:behdad@behdad.org">behdad@behdad.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 12/13/2009 11:03 PM, Parag Nemade wrote:<br>
> Hi Behdad,<br>
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> On Friday 11 December 2009 01:57 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote:<br>
>> On 10 Dec 2009, at 21:29, Parag Nemade wrote:<br>
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>>> Hi,<br>
>>> I would like to know whether current harfbuzz code can be used for testing the rendering of Indic scripts?<br>
>> Not easily, I think. A little while ago, I started work on Indic support (initially concentrating on the "new" Devanagari standard as used in Vista/Windows7), but AFAIK I don't think Behdad has committed any of that code to the repository yet. At that time, there were still some changes happening in the internal shaper/features APIs. I've been busy in other areas for the past few weeks, so have not been pressing to get this integrated.<br>
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> Can you check if Jonathan's code can still be integrated in harfbuzz?<br>
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</div>It's not. Will get to it this week.<br></blockquote><div><br>Is it worth reinventing the wheel? Is it not possible to use the code from ICU or Pango? Already a bunch of complex script rendering engines (ICU, Pango, Uniscribe) has made the Indic rendering scene a mess. Currently fonts should have separate ligature rules according to different rendering engine behaviours to create a single expected result universally.<br>
</div></div>-- <br>Kevin Siji<br>