[HarfBuzz] Simplifying the hb-shape.cc example

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Fri Jan 6 05:55:29 PST 2012


On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 08:21:32PM +0900, Kenichi Ishibashi (石橋 賢一) wrote:
> But if I have to depend on ICU, I could as well use it directly for shaping
> and layout, no ?
> 
> I'm not sure, but I think ICU doesn't handle text shaping itself.

ICU has a layout engine, but from my experience HarfBuzz is more feature
complete (Indic scripts aside) and have less OT handling bugs (if there
are still any).

Regards,
 Khaled



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