[HarfBuzz] Decisions between New Harfbuzz or the Old Qt version for Symbian

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Hi Saurabh,

I really can't recommend one or the other objectively.  My recommendation
would be to go for harfbuzz-ng, but you have to consider your timeframe and
requirements and make your own decision.

The new version is not complete yet, but it's improving fast.  I don't want to
throw another date out there, but I'm actively working on it, and we are
planning a Text Layout Summit in August to finish Pango and Qt ports to it.

behdad

On 07/06/11 04:58, ext-saurabh.sethi at nokia.com wrote:
> Hi All,
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> We have been following the development of New Harfbuzz and are very interested
> in its Indic Font Shaping work.
> 
> Presently, we are involved in porting the old Harfbuzz over to Symbian and
> decommission the existing ICU shaper. I do understand that this may be a
> mistake as the new code is under active development by the great team here!
> But I have been made to understand that this new version is still not ready
> for prime time and has a lot of issues – specially with Indic Fonts.
> 
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> 
> It would be great if someone could provide us with a basic estimate on when
> and in what quality will the new Harfbuzz be ready?
> 
> Any way on how we could see these differences, and possibly influence the
> decision of using New Harfbuzz in Symbain will be greatly appreciated!
> 
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> 
> Regards
> 
>  
> 
> Saurabh
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