[HarfBuzz] hb_unicode_eastasian_width

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/9/15 13:01, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at gmail.com
>> <mailto:jfkthame at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi Behdad,
>>
>>     Just wondering about hb_unicode_eastasian_width, and the underlying
>>     support for it in the unicode_funcs.... AFAICS this is not currently
>>     used in any way. (Or am I forgetting something important?)
>>
>>     Do you have plans for this at all, or is it truly redundant?
>>
>>
>> It's redundant.  We should deprecate it and add another, redundant,
>> vertical-orientation property.  That will be useful by HarfBuzz clients,
>> for segmenting vertical text.  Having it in hb-unicode is handy because
>> client code can interact with hb-unicode API only.
>>
>> Does that make sense to you?
>>
>
> Yes, sounds fine. (For now, I mostly wanted to check whether removing our
> current implementation of the EAW callback might be something we'd regret
> later.)


Right.  I'll go ahead and deprecate it.  I don't think anyone ever used it.


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behdad
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