Re: Ligature support

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

I see that the harfbuzz people say that we should just run all the text
through hb_shape instead of doing it selectively like we do it now:

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Full text shaping is the only way to get this right. Everything else
is a hack, and piling hacks on top of hacks is just storing
maintenance problems up for yourself.
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How big a performance issue would it be to just run all the text through
hb_shape?

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