[HarfBuzz] Harfbuzz on Windows

[Samiullah Khawaja]

Hi Behdad,

Yes It would be nice to have a standalone unicode db support. Eagerly
waiting for something like this.

Thanks,
Sami

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:50 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:

> 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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Samiullah Khawaja
Software Engineer
email: sami.khawaja at gmail.com
voice: +(92) 0321-4184324
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