> 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. _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
