<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Tom Hacohen <<a href="mailto:tom.hacohen@samsung.com" target="_blank">tom.hacohen@samsung.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 05/07/12 12:40, Shriramana Sharma wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Samiullah Khawaja <<a href="mailto:sami.khawaja@gmail.com" target="_blank">sami.khawaja@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I have some more questions... how can i find direction of the text? Is HB able to determine the text direction by itself? </blockquote> I suppose HB just implements <a href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/" target="_blank">http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/</a> -- all Unicode characters have a directionality property which would help determine the direction of rendering. </blockquote> </div></div> Doesn't and never will, see my reply to Samiullah Khawaja. -- Tom. </blockquote></div> Thanks. I am building harfbuzz for Android, I have created a make file for it and have also compiled the harfbuzz code. Now for arabic do I need the icu or glib unicode functions? or the unicode nil function should do the job? Can I use libunistring for unicode functions if nil won't work? Regards, Sami