On 09/08/2012 12:46 AM, Mohit Sindhwani wrote: > Hi All, > > This is my first post to this list as I get started at looking at font and > language support for one of our applications. Our application runs on an > embedded target and I want to make its language support independent of the > operating system. > > So, it seemed that implementing a stack based on Pango, Cairo, freetype and > font config might be a good option since we could bundle the necessary fonts, > etc. with our application and it could handle the necessary stuff within the > application. We already use UTF-8 within the database for all the dynamic > text/ searchable entities, so we thought we should be fine. > > However, as I started exploring, I read: http://behdad.org/text/ and got > rather confused about Harfbuzz - should we use Pango or should we use Harfbuzz > or should we use both? Our target is a GL-ES 2.0 device (iOS, Android, > Windows CE, etc.) and we are unsure if we should use GL directly or should we > use Cairo (probably a question for a different mailing list).
If you can use Pango, use Pango. HarfBuzz is only one piece in building a full text rendering system. As for the GL side, using cairo-gl may be fine. behdad > It may be that I am not providing the correct information that you need (since > it's my first time here). > > Best Regards, > Mohit. > 8/9/2012 | 12:43 PM. > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-i18n-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-i18n-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-i18n-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-i18n-list
