[HarfBuzz] Classic Mongolian in Firefox

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Mon Jan 16 07:28:51 PST 2012


Thanks Jonathan.  I'll attend to these today.  Now that I've trimmed my inbox
to under 400, the HarfBuzz backlog really stands out, so see some fixes going
in this week, and perhaps I'll roll a tarball too.

b

On 01/16/2012 07:31 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
> I've had a bug on file about updating harfbuzz in our tree for awhile now... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695857. I'm about to post updated patches there, as we've had other code changes in the meantime that require some revision; then let's hope we can get it reviewed and landed.
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> Behdad, if you could take a couple of patches upstream in harfbuzz (so that we don't have to make local modifications), that'd be helpful:
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> (1) some older/stricter compilers don't accept a trailing comma in enums, so please eliminate those;
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> (2) the loop-indexing fixes from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701637, plus correction from bug 714067.
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> I'm attaching patches for these issues that should be easy to apply upstream (they're based on current git master, as of this morning, imported into our tree - you should just need to ignore our path prefix).
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> JK
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> On 15 Jan 2012, at 20:37, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is really Jonathan's call.  I'm guessing that because Firefox has not
>> rebased their HarfBuzz for a while.  A lot has changed since, so it's a bit
>> more than minor effort to update.  But I'm hoping that it would happen sooner
>> than later.
>>
>> behdad
>>
>> On 12/28/2011 09:56 AM, tugi e wrote:
>>> Hallo Behdad and Jonathan,
>>>
>>> Harfbuzz supports already the classic Mongolian shaping (See here:
>>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32274 ). But Firefox doesn't
>>> currently support the classic Mongolian. Is there any reason for that or does
>>> Firefox use still an old version of Harfbuzz? If yes, is there any plan to
>>> update the Harfbuzz branch in Firefox?
>>>
>>> best regards
>>> tugstugi
>>>
>>>
>>>
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