[HarfBuzz] What is wrong with unicode in harfbuzz?

[Kelvin Ma]

I would use list(map(ord, string)) since unicode codepoint strings are more
pythonic (and i only now discover that harfbuzz has
buffer_add_codepoints()…yay documentation)

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:17 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:10:03PM -0400, Kelvin Ma wrote:
> > ok thanks!! && in that case yall best fix the example at
> > https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/blob/master/src/sample.py then
> because
> > it just uses string.encode('utf-x'). which is confusing.
>
> The example is fine, for UTF-8 the API expects bytes array which is what
> str.encode() gives you. May be it can be extended to show how to handle
> other encodings, can you send a pull request?
>
> Regards,
> Khaled
>
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