[HarfBuzz] Hindi scripts shaping support (Devangari and etc)

[Tom Hacohen]

Dear Oliver,

>From what I've seen it works (tried with Tamil), thank you very much.

Will send a patch with an indic shaper I hacked together in a moment.

Thanks a lot,
Tom.

On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 14:44 +0200, Olivier BERTEN wrote:
> As far as I can tell, Harfbuzz already supports these scripts. I'm
> currently testing hb-view for Khmer script and it works like a charm, as
> long as the khmr script is defined in the font. If not, you just need to
> tell which opentype features hb should use.
> 
> Olivier
> 
> Le 21/04/11 12:39, Tom Hacohen a écrit :
> > Dear all,
> >
> > How are you? I hope you are well.
> >
> > I really need Harfbuzz to support those scripts which do not currently
> > work. I remember that some time ago some people have shown interest in
> > getting them to work and even someone (don't remember who) said he's
> > working on it.
> >
> > I can't read/write any of those languages nor am I familiar with the
> > Harfbuzz (ng or old) code nor with the OT specifications, but I think
> > that at this point I will have to try adding this support myself, or at
> > least try to see what I can do.
> >
> > I'm sending this email to find out if there's already someone that's
> > working on it, if so, does he have an ETA? or maybe did something I can
> > base my work upon? If not, do you guys have any tips (beside reading the
> > OT specs which I'm doing now, reading the harfbuzz code which I'll do
> > soon or learn reading Devangari which I don't see happening :P )?
> >
> > Thanks a lot,
> > Tom.
> >
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