[HarfBuzz] Questions regarding hb_language_t

[James Clark]

Since we're talking about script itemization, I noticed that MS DirectWrite
is advertised as doing 'language-guided script itemization' [1]

Anybody have any insight into what this involves?

James

[1]
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd371554(v=vs.85).aspx


On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:

> 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,
> --
> behdad
> http://behdad.org/
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