[HarfBuzz] Compiling harfbuzz-ng under Mac OS 10.6

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Mon Jan 10 13:23:08 PST 2011


On 01/10/11 14:25, 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?

Well, you don't "need" ICU.  But if you have it, you can use its character
database.  Or you can use Python's, or Perl's, or glib's, or Qt's, or any
other one.  HarfBuzz provides the glue code for glib and ICU, but it's trivial
to do for other systems too.

behdad

> Deron



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