On 31/05/12 08:20, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
For the street index part of MapOSMatic, we are using the Pango library to do this kind of work, and it normally handles all the "problems" that you can face with RTL languages, and also things like ligatures in Arabic. Wouldn't it be possible to leverage Pango rather than reinventing the same (rather complicated) logic?
I have suggested using Pango in the past, but Artem was reluctant due to all the dependencies it has.
I agree that using something like Pango or HarfBuzz is the only sensible way to go though as trying to reimplement shaping for all the languages would be a massive job.
I'm not clear how much better HarfBuzz is from a dependency point of view - it is still built on top of GLib so looks much the same to me from that point of view.
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