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


Georg Duffner <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #33 from Georg Duffner <[email protected]>  2013-02-27 03:02:28 
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(In reply to comment #28)
> 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.

FWIW I’ve put together a test page for the locl features in EB Garamond. They 
are all “simple” locales (serbian, catalan, german and turkish).

http://www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond/tests/locltest.html

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