https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1753295
--- Comment #65 from Nicolas Mailhot <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Kevin Kofler from comment #63) > Yet, Qt has been using HarfBuzz for a few years now, and has no trouble > loading legacy bitmap fonts. HarfBuzz is mainly a layouting engine, it can > be used just fine together with FreeType's font loader. That's what pango (and Libre Office) did at first, before giving up on the legacy path > The Pango developers decided against doing that due to some locking issues > with FT_Face that > would be better addressed in FreeType, Because harfbuzz was created and written to replace this buggy code. By the people who used to maintain this buggy code freetype-side, before deciding fixing it properly required creating new lib. You may as well ask why wayland does not depend on good old X11 code. Replacing the good old bug-ridden code is the whole point of both projects. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ fonts-bugs mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]
