[HarfBuzz] icu-le-hb

[Steven R. Loomis]

then you'll need to explicitly call the HB subclass. Maybe that's OK. ?


On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:

> So, I have a new idea for the wrapper:  We should leave the LayoutEngine
> class
> exactly as it is in ICU itself, and subclass it for the HarfBuzz port.
>  That
> way we can even be binary compatible with upstream after you make the
> addition
> to the LEFontInstance.
>
> b
>
> On 12-10-31 06:47 PM, Steven R. Loomis wrote:
> > Progress?
> >
> > Without valgrind it SIGABRT's immediately .
> > RHEL 6.3, ICU 50 prerelease
> >
> > Inline image 1
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org
> > <mailto:behdad at behdad.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi everyone,
> >
> >     A few weeks ago I sat down and wrote icu-le-hb a small library
> exposing the
> >     API of ICU LayoutEngine, and using HarfBuzz to do the real work.  I
> hvae not
> >     tested this beyond "compiles", and don't have an easy way to test it
> either.
> >
> >     That's when you come in :).  If you know any icule users, git it a
> go.  It
> >     definitely wouldn't work initially, but is simple and small enough
> that should
> >     be easy to fix.  Main users I can thin kof, and in which I'm
> interested, are:
> >
> >       * OpenJDK (it has an old copy of icule inside a directory called
> layout/),
> >
> >       * OO.o, or whatever it's called these days :),
> >
> >       * XeTeX
> >
> >     The library is not supposed to be binary compatible with ICU LE.
>  So, it's
> >     fine to add modify the API slightly, or modify the client site.
> >
> >     Anyway, if you give it a go let me know.  Ok, name calling time.
>  Khaled,
> >     Martin, Steven, I'm looking at you!
> >
> >     Cheers,
> >     behdad
> >
> >     PS. https://github.com/behdad/icu-le-hb
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