[HarfBuzz] Compiling harfbuzz-ng under Mac OS 10.6

[Steven R. Loomis]

ICU does a lot of things, but Harfbuzz (last I checked) uses only the 
Unicode properties part of ICU. It would be possible to reduce the 
footprint of the ICU used by Harfbuzz, see 
<http://userguide.icu-project.org/packaging#TOC-Making-ICU-Smaller>

Steven

On 1/10/11 11:25 AM, Deron Kazmaier wrote:
> Thanks,
>
> Neither are normally available on the platforms I wish to use this on. 
> Seems ironic that I need ICU (which has shaping) to get Harfbuzz to 
> shape :-)
>
> What is considered more advanced?
>
> Deron
>
>
>
> On 1/9/11 8:04 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>> In general you need to provide harfbuzz with a set of Unicode Character
>> Database implementation.  Both the glib and ICU code you see in there 
>> do that.
>>   Lacking those, you must find another way to get access to that 
>> data.  Without
>> it, basic shaping works, but more advanced features fail.
>>
>> behdad

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