Hi Maggy,
First, you would need FriBidi or another bidi implementation even if you use
HarfBuzz.
Next, for Arabic shaping, FriBidi does a very basic job of that, with no
advanced substitution/positioning involved and hence no need for GSUB/GPOS
tables. For anything more than basic Arabic you
Hi Behdad,
At the moment I am trying to use HarfBuzz (and FreeType) to deal with
these tables. The only reason for me to do so (at least at current
moment) is to render Arabic font correctlly.
you mentioned that if the primary use is to get Arabic rendering, I
can use FriBidi only to do so.
Does
Hi,
For OpenType complex shaping you need HarfBuzz [1]. Google engineers are
working on using it for the Chromium port on Linux [2]. Using Pango with the
FreeType backend is a simpler solution (Pango+FreeType uses HarfBuzz internally).
If your primary use is to get Arabic rendering done,
Hi,
Is there anybody who has been working on font related stuff on mobile
devices? I am interested in getting Open Type Font (OTF) support on
symbian, windows mobile devices and most likely on Android in future
as well. As far as I know, Open Type Fonts (Arabic, Urdu etc.) are not
supported on
