[HarfBuzz] unbreaking mixed-up khmer fonts

Jonathan Kew jfkthame at googlemail.com
Tue Nov 20 15:29:35 PST 2012


On 20/11/12 18:42, Jonathan Kew wrote:
> On 20/11/12 17:40, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>> On 20/11/12 17:06, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>>> On 12-11-20 10:22 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm becoming increasingly convinced we need to bite the bullet and
>>>> reintroduce
>>>> explicit Ra support for fonts that lack 'pref'. Sigh.
>>>
>>> Umm'k.  Walking in this morning I was thinking that maybe checking for
>>> 'pref'
>>> would do it.  But if not, then I'll bring back fallback 'pref'.  May
>>> not get
>>> to it till the weekend though.
>>
>> Yeah, I got to thinking the same thing, and so far it's looking
>> promising... instead of saying we *won't* use indic if there's liga,
>> let's say we'll *only* use indic if there's pref.
>>
>> AFAICT, using the attached patch,
>
> I mean that patch, modulo fixing the parens in the conditional so that
> it'll actually compile, of course.
>

Test builds of Firefox Nightly (for various platforms) using this patch 
are available at 
<http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/try-builds/jkew@mozilla.com-4bdec69a038e/>. 
Testing across a variety of real Khmer sites would be much appreciated!

JK




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