> Use case is very simple: with the FreeType stack, all of hb_face_t,
> PangoFont, and cairo_scaled_font_t all can use keeping a pointer to
> an FT_Face. But alas, one cannot do that safely since you never
> know when the face is going away.
Again: What would you like as an interface? Something like a function
`FT_Face_IsAlive', returning a boolean?
> If there was refcounts in FreeType, harfbuzz could increment the
> refcount on the FT_Face it keeps a pointer to.
Since my knowledge is quite poor here, can you point me to a library
which implements something along this?
Werner
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