[HarfBuzz] how to test ICU backend in harfbuzz-ng?

[mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp]

On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:13:39 +0200
Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:

>On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 12:30:14PM +0900, suzuki toshiya wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm interested in the text shaping by ICU backend,
>> via harfbuzz-ng. Is there any testing or demonstration
>> tool to use the feature?
>
>AFAIK, ICU can be used only for Unicode character proprieties and may be
>some other Unicode functions that HB needs, but the actual shaping is
>all done by HB itself.

Thanks for enlightening. Yes, ht-icu.cc provides functions
to obtain Unicode character properties only, and I was
wondering where HB invokes ICU shaper... nowhere, Indeed!

Regards,
mpsuzuki