[HarfBuzz] Questions regarding hb_language_t

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 14-01-22 09:40 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> The word “proper” was missing from the previous sentence. It was using
> the script of the first non-common non-inherited character in the bidi
> run, falling back to Latin (which irritated me most, since Amiri has
> some locale-specific punctuation marks which did not work for bidi runs
> with no Arabic characters). Now the whole string is taken into account
> when doing script itemization, plus basic paired characters support
> thanks to the code borrowed from ICU. I think next is to added
> ScriptExtensions support, but that is for another day.

Yes.  We are going through this in Chromium right now [1].  The whole thing
becomes really hard really fast.  I'll dump some ideas into a doc today.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=311372

Cheers,
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behdad
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