[HarfBuzz] A couple of clarifications regarding HarfBuzz

Tom Hacohen tom.hacohen at partner.samsung.com
Wed Oct 20 09:31:47 PDT 2010


On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 18:12 +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> It depends on your usage, it can be set by user or guessed from the
> locale I think. There are language detection tools but I'm not sure if
> any one used it to control rendering (or whether it is appropriate or
> not), and it is likely to fail for very short strings.

I think I'll just guess from the locale then, language detection will
just be too expensive and as you said, not accurate enough.

Thanks a lot,
Tom.





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