On Sat, Dec 05, 2015 at 04:52:13PM +0530, Deepak Jois wrote: > I have a few questions about script and language handling in Harfbuzz APIs > > 1. It seems that hb_buffer_guess_segment_properties uses the LC_TYPE > as the language. In my case, for whatever reason it is reporting it as > ‘c’.
If your application does not call setlocale(), you will get the C locale. > How does that effect shaping, if at all? If font have language-specific features, like for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_Cyrillic_alphabet#Differences_from_other_Cyrillic_alphabets Or how Urdu-specific number shapes are implemented in most fonts. > 2. Is there a canonical list of languages that are defined in any font > standard? Can/does Harfbuzz validate against them? The answer seems no > from a cursory look at the code. https://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/languagetags.htm Regards, Khaled _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
