On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 10:00:02AM -0700, Deron Kazmaier wrote: > I've been where you are! I have a set of hb unicode functions I wrote up > because I did not want to depend on glib or icu either for my test program. It > is a handful of simple functions and a rather large file of data, and might > not > work for you, but if you want I am happy to send them to you (about 210k > uncompressed). I also wrote a small (rather ugly) program that parses the > unicode data files to generate the tables it uses. > > Also, it is possible to get simple strings of right-to-left to work, if you > use > the functions to determine the primary script and direction of the run. No > mixed rtl/ltr, but at least arabic/hebrew would work (It does for me at > least).
To get proper mixed rtl/ltr (AKA BiDi) you need to either implement Unicode BiDi algorithm yourself (not for the faint of heart) or use e.g. fribidi, to determine rtl/ltr runs and then do the shaping with harfbuzz. Regards, Khaled _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list HarfBuzz@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
