On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 13:46 +0200, Eduardo Castiñeyra wrote: > For instance, I used fribidi in the past and it returned the visual > string in Unicode format. I think that hb_shape does pretty the same > thing. The only reason I imagine is that not all the glyphs may have an > index in the Unicode table, so it would be imposible to represent them > all as Unicode indices, but I don't know whether it is true. > This is true, and this is exactly why.
What do you need the "visual unicode string" for anyway? > Is there any literature about layout processing for not having to ask > these kind of questions in the list? I'm very lost on what to expect > from i18n libraries. I mostly use the Microsoft pages, but if you can find something else, please let me know. -- Tom. _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
