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bug#11075: 24.0.94; Arabic character composition
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mituharu |
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bug#11075: 24.0.94; Arabic character composition |
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Mon, 23 Sep 2019 05:23:51 +0900 |
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>> Since that was written, harfbuzz was enabled by default. And wouldn't
>> that library have good support for this anyhow?
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>> > It might still be an issue on GNUstep, though. I think it still uses
>> > nsfont.m.
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>> I'm not a GNUstep user so I can't easily test this.
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>> But would the recent harfbuzz support (enabled by default on GNUstep
>> too, I assume) fix this? Do you know, Eli?
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> As I understand it Harfbuzz is not supported on the NS port at all. I
> know that Yamamoto Mitsuharu wrote a proof of concept, but I don’t
> believe it was ever finished.
It is for the mac-ct font backend, and doesn't work on GNUstep.
YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp