[HarfBuzz] What is wrong with unicode in harfbuzz?

[Kelvin Ma]

aight it’s posted (https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/pull/269)

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:19 PM, Kelvin Ma <kelvinsthirteen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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