<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Sergey <<a href="mailto:asnarta@gmail.com" target="_blank">asnarta@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> We are newers in HB and have problems with using HB on Windows in our project for rendering Arabic/Indic and etc. languages. MAIN our goal while using harfbuzz is to get appropriate ligatures/replacement glyph indexes and etc. We build HB on msvc9, use FT-2.4.2 and ICU-4c-4_8_1. Our implementation of buffer shaping example is next: /* Get our harfbuzz font/face structs */ hb_font_t *hb_ft_font = hb_ft_font_create(Font_Mgr::Font_Face, NULL); hb_face_t *hb_ft_face = hb_ft_face_create(Font_Mgr::Font_Face, NULL); hb_ft_font_set_funcs (hb_ft_font); // IS IT AS A MUST or could be ommited?? wchar_t *w_cut_text = L"عر بي"; // x0639, 0x0631, 0x0020, 0x0628, 0x064a // INPUT string is wchar_t - NOT SURE that further conversion works well!! uint16_t *cur_text_16 = (uint16_t*)w_cut_text; const char *cur_lang = "ar"; // OK /* Create a buffer for harfbuzz to use */ hb_buffer_t *buffer = hb_buffer_create(); //OK hb_buffer_set_unicode_funcs(buffer, hb_icu_get_unicode_funcs()); // WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF USING hb_icu_get_unicode_funcs() or what own implemtation should provide?? hb_buffer_set_direction(buffer, HB_DIRECTION_RTL); //OK hb_buffer_set_script(buffer, HB_SCRIPT_ARABIC); //OK hb_buffer_set_language(buffer, hb_language_from_string(cur_lang)); //OK /* Layout the text */ hb_buffer_add_utf16 (buffer, cur_text_16, 5, 0, 5); // WHAT is the semantic usage of 3 last parameters?? hb_shape (hb_ft_font, buffer, NULL, 0); </blockquote><div>Try using hb_ot_shape() and see if it solves your problem. I too had used hb_shape() earlier but that didn't work, and when I used hb_ot_shape() it started working. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> /* Hand the layout to render */ unsigned int glyph_count = hb_buffer_get_length (buffer); hb_glyph_info_t *glyph_infos = hb_buffer_get_glyph_infos (buffer, NULL); hb_glyph_position_t *glyph_positions = hb_buffer_get_glyph_positions (buffer, NULL); for (unsigned int i = 0; i < glyph_count; i++) { hb_glyph_info_t *info = &glyph_infos[i]; hb_glyph_position_t *pos = &glyph_positions[i]; printf ("cluster %d glyph 0x%x at (%d,%d)+(%d,%d)\n", info->cluster, info->codepoint, pos->x_offset, pos->x_offset, pos->x_advance, pos->y_advance); } hb_buffer_destroy (buffer); hb_font_destroy (hb_ft_font); hb_face_destroy (hb_ft_face); AS AN OUTPUT we got array of glyphs indexes in info->codepoint, but this array is the same as array of glyphs indexes, that backs FT for text {'ع','ر',' ','ب','ي'}. - > BUT DID NOT GET EXPECTED ligatures/replaced glyphs and etc. So, only string revers is worked good. What are we donig wrong?? Could you please give any ideas or provide a sample code for a such task! THANK YOU VERY MUCH IN ADVANCED! WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD RECEIVING FEEDBACK FROM YOU! REGARDS, Sergey. _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list <a href="mailto:HarfBuzz@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">HarfBuzz@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz</a> </blockquote></div> -- Thanks & Regards, Shiva Kumar H R