[Libreoffice] [PUSHED] Re: Horizontal glyph adjustments are ignored with ICU layout

Michael Meeks michael.meeks at novell.com
Fri Feb 4 03:00:34 PST 2011


On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 23:27 +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> Indeed. A real long term "fix" is to drop ICU layout engine altogether
> and switch to HarfBuzz, however HarfBuzz lacks Indic shaper right now
> (promised to be there by March), once it have one we should consider
> doing so (I'd try to give a hand).

	Oooh ! :-) that would be brilliant :-) if we can get that great big (13
+Mb) blob of ICU out of the codebase, and substitute harfbuzz I'd be
thrilled :-)

> Next on the list is the horribly broken Kashida justification and make
> it optional.

	It is wonderful to have you around fixing all of this.

	All the best,

		Michael.

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