[HarfBuzz] harfbuzz 1.0

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 08/21/2012 02:38 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
> On 7/8/12 00:13, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>> [+harfbuzz list]
>>
>> Hi Matthias,
>>
>> Hope you enjoyed GUADEC.  I sure missed the atmosphere, judging by PGO posts.
>>
>> Sure, lets do it.  As of now, harfbuzz is in par os better than Pango in all
>> aspects that I know.
>>
>> So, what I will do (some of it during my flight back home today):
>> ....
> 
> Hi Behdad,
> 
> One other thing that'd be nice to have in time for 1.0: insertion of dotted
> circle as an artificial base for text-initial combining marks -- i.e. marks
> that lack any valid base character.

Right.

> (I know we've discussed this before, so just noting it here FTR.)
> 
> Not sure whether there should be an API to enable/disable this behavior; is it
> likely that some clients might want to suppress it?

I think API to control these kinds of things can wait until we are ready for
it.  For example, showing control characcters falls into the same category.

behdad

> JK