On 20 Jan 2011, at 16:30, Deron Kazmaier wrote:

> On 1/19/11 8:34 AM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>> On 01/19/11 00:59, Deron Kazmaier wrote:
>>> So, is something missing from this Frutiger font that Harfbuzz requires? I
>>> can't say that it is a defective font (brand new from Linotype, must be 
>>> good,
>>> right ;-), so is this a font that requires code not yet written?? Or 
>>> something
>>> I am not handling on my end?
>> The Arabic shaper is complete as far as I'm concerned.  Can't tell without
>> having the font though.
>> 
>> This is a good time to say that I happily accept font donations from 
>> foundries
>> and individuals for testing purposes.
>> 
>> behdad
>> 
> 
> ok, nothing on my end seems to change what Harfbuzz does. Frutiger glyphs 
> never get any substitutions, and any other font with Arabic glyphs that I 
> have tested work just fine. Very odd.
> 
> Since Behdad confirms that this font works fine for him, I need to test with 
> some other Harfbuzz application that works and run it through the debugger 
> and see what the difference is. My only conclusion so far is that this font 
> must use a different set of routines within the shaper. Don't ask me how that 
> bit of code would fail and not the rest...
> 
> So, what applications are out there I can test with? Any simply test apps? 
> There is the harfbuzz-ng branch of Pango, but that would not be easy to debug.

Firefox 4 uses harfbuzz-ng, so you could try that font with the latest FF4 beta 
(or nightly) and see if it shapes properly.

JK

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