https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37984





--- Comment #28 from Nicolas Mailhot <[email protected]>  2013-01-10 
06:10:23 PST ---
IMHO heuristics are doomed to fail badly sooner or later. The simple path is 
wishful thinking

Complex font features are not limited to specific locales such as Serbian, 
Serbian is just a locale that needs it more than others. Complex features 
adoption start there and then spreads elsewhere (some people thought unicode 
was not necessary for western european locale support, and then German speakers 
standardized upercase ss, oops)

It's much safer to always use the complex codepath, instead of betting on some 
locales never using tech that is available anyway due to other locale needs. 
Now that the tools to create complex fonts are there, someone will find a way 
to use them even for the 'simplest' locales.

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