Not sure how it will help to use c API. But whatever works. Ill be back online today and take a look. <div> </div><div>S On Sunday, October 28, 2012, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> And: icu-le-hb seems to be working now. I tested it by installing it, then configuring HarfBuzz against it, and run hb-view with --shaper=icu_le, which would roundtrip to icu-le-hb and back to HarfBuzz's default (ot) shaper. I had to port HarfBuzz's icu_le backend to use the ICU LayoutEngine C API as I was getting weird crashes using the C++ API and was not making progress debugging it. behdad On 12-10-17 03:24 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > Hi everyone, > > A few weeks ago I sat down and wrote icu-le-hb a small library exposing the > API of ICU LayoutEngine, and using HarfBuzz to do the real work. I hvae not > tested this beyond "compiles", and don't have an easy way to test it either. > > That's when you come in :). If you know any icule users, git it a go. It > definitely wouldn't work initially, but is simple and small enough that should > be easy to fix. Main users I can thin kof, and in which I'm interested, are: > > * OpenJDK (it has an old copy of icule inside a directory called layout/), > > * OO.o, or whatever it's called these days :), > > * XeTeX > > The library is not supposed to be binary compatible with ICU LE. So, it's > fine to add modify the API slightly, or modify the client site. > > Anyway, if you give it a go let me know. Ok, name calling time. Khaled, > Martin, Steven, I'm looking at you! > > Cheers, > behdad > > PS. <a href="https://github.com/behdad/icu-le-hb" target="_blank">https://github.com/behdad/icu-le-hb</a> > _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list <a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'HarfBuzz@lists.freedesktop.org')">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> -- Sent from Gmail Mobile