[HarfBuzz] Character mirroring and the OMPL

[Jonathan Kew]

We've talked about this at some point in the past, and IIRC Behdad was 
reluctant, but I think we should just fix harfbuzz to respect the OMPL, 
exactly as spec'd. Even though it's an ugly solution.

JK

On 18/1/14 11:56, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> Hi Behdad,
>
> According to the spec[1] character mirroring uses a fixed OpenType
> Mirroring Pairs List[2] (I guess for stability in case Unicode changes
> mirroring properties as was done in the past), but HarfBuzz does not use
> it and uses the Unicode mirrored property instead, is this intentional?
>
> Regards,
> Khaled
>
> 1. http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/TTOCHAP1.htm#ltrrtl
> 2. http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/ompl.txt
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