Re: [dev] GUIs

2019-05-22 Thread sylvain . bertrand
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 03:19:40PM -0400, LM wrote: > ... If you code your own toolkit, you can decide to handle only a few "unicode scripts". You may add a few limitations on top, and it can become way simpler to code. This is what I did with the drop-in replacement of harfbuzz: only basic left-t

Re: [dev] GUIs

2019-05-22 Thread LM
Sylvain .Bertrand wrote: > The only really tough thing with a GUI toolkit (C or anything else) is what > you >wrote above: "correct" layout/navigation and rendering of unicode text at near >global scale. I've been investigating that. Was reading the Unicode information on the BIDI algorithm amon