[HarfBuzz] Detecting mandatory ligatures

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 3:52 PM, Jamie Dale <jamiedale88+harfbuzz at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> My current code that performs picking on text, or applies formatting to
> text that spans a ligature, assumes that any ligature can be split into its
> component grapheme clusters, however this assumption does not hold true for
> that ligature as it cannot be split.
>

That assumption does not hold true for most ligatures.  Say, "fi" ligature.



> Does HarfBuzz have a way to identify these mandatory ligatures, or failing
> that, how do people generally deal with this sort of thing? I have ICU
> available if it has anything that can help?
>

Check out libraqm for example.


> Thanks,
> Jamie.
>
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