[HarfBuzz] Harfbuzz on Windows

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 07/25/2012 07:18 PM, Samiullah Khawaja wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What about uniscribe? Will it be able to replace the icu/glib dependency. I
> thought I can get rid of icu/glib dependency by using uniscribe. Is my
> assumption wrong? What does hb-uniscribe.cc file in harfbuzz-ng source do?

hb-uniscribe.cc is a backend delegating the whole shaping to the Windows DLL.
 With that, you don't need any Unicode callbacks whatsoever.

It's not meant for production use, but it's actually not that bad.  Depends on
what your goals really are.

> Are there any Windows APIs I can use and write a layer on it to replace the
> icu/glib dependency?

Not that I know of.  I'll produce something tonight.

behdad

> Thanks for the help.
> Sami
> 
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org
> <mailto:behdad at behdad.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On 07/25/2012 04:58 PM, Grigori Goronzy wrote:
>     > Unfortunately both ICU and glib are huge frameworks with their own set
>     > of dependencies. A stripped-down standalone library that provides a
>     > unicode character database and nothing more would be great to have.
> 
>     I'm planning on shipping a barebone set of Unicode data internally in HarfBuzz
>     for such usecases.  No concrete timeline right now, but it's an afternoon's
>     worth of hacking.
> 
>     behdad
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