[HarfBuzz] Unicode vs glyphs

[Eduardo Castiñeyra]

El 14/06/2011 16:31, Shriramana Sharma escribió:
> Yeah, of what use is a sequence of Unicode characters in visual order? 
> The whole point of a shaping engine is to convert characters to glyphs 
> and in the proper order, right?
Well, I was assuming that every glyph could be represented by a unicode 
character. So it looked more practical to have a list of unicode chars 
than a list of glyph indices because the last ones are font dependant.
>
> And for documentation, I feel you should read the Graphite 
> documentation. Even though it is not OpenType, it should be quite 
> instructive as to rendering in general as it throws the entire 
> responsibility of rendering on the font programmer.
>
I will do it, thanks!