Hi all,

Thanks for the clarifications.

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Adam Twardoch (List) <[email protected]
> wrote:

> For Unicode text layout, apps should use a Unicode text processing library
> such as ICU, and a glyph layout library such as Harfbuzz before querying
> FreeType for glyph images.
>

I am using both Harfbuzz and ICU to do my text shaping and layout. It
doesn't change that I still need to manually go through the text, look out
for these characters and ensure they aren't drawn at all. My thought
process was more like a LF, CR, tab, etc just control layout. They
shouldn't have any visible component (unless you have some specialized
font). I would have thought fonts would map them to a specific invisible
glyph rather than the visible missing glyph symbol.

I wasn't sure how this is typically handled and the extra step of 'getting
rid' of those characters seemed a bit strange so I just wanted to verify.


Preet
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