On Sun, 16 May 2021 21:30:25 +0900, suzuki toshiya wrote: > BTW, I wonder whether current last answer referring Pango should be > improved by referring HarfBuzz. Yes, Pango is still essential part of > GTK+, but HarfBuzz is becoming more general framework broader than > GTK+. How do you feel?
Myself, I’ve never used Pango. I managed to do Python wrappers for FreeType, Cairo, HarfBuzz and FriBidi, but never got as far as Pango ;). In other words, I don’t feel qualified to offer any opinion on it. By the way, following up Werner’s suggestion about mentioning ICU, and idly looking through packages in the standard Debian repo, I came across libicu-le-hb <https://github.com/behdad/icu-le-hb>, where Behdad has stripped out the shaping engine from libicu and replaced it with HarfBuzz.
