> From: Behdad Esfahbod <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 12:45:00 -0700
> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> 
> HarfBuzz handles everything it understands.  It was designed, in fact, such 
> that when combined with
> FreeType or other external font funcs implementation, it even "handles" font 
> formats it does not understand. 
> Eg. HarfBuzz doesn't understand BDF, PCF, etc, but if you use hb-ft, you can 
> use hb-ft for everything, and
> BDF, PCF etc also magically work because HarfBuzz defers to FreeType for 
> glyph access, and simply
> "passes through" for the rest.  It was designed such that you can keep one 
> shaping code path.

We don't currently use hb-ft on Windows.  But thanks, I think I
understand.
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