On 07/21/11 15:17, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On 07/21/11 15:06, Grigori Goronzy wrote:
>> On 07/21/2011 08:41 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>>> The reason I ended up doing this however is that what we were doing was not
>>> exactly what UAX #29 [1] does anyway.  So instead of fooling users into
>>> believing that this is useful for cursor positioning, I decided to make it 
>>> do
>>> one thing: map characters and glyphs minimally.
>>
>> What a strange rationale. I would see this as a motivation to bring
>> HarfBuzz more in line with the recommendations in annex #29.
> 
> But that's not the job of the shaper.

Humm, nevermind.   I just noted that for my NFC/NFD tricks to work I need to
form clusters anyway.  So I'm reverting that change.

behdad

> behdad
> 
>>> http://git.gnome.org/browse/pango/commit/?h=harfbuzz-ng-external&id=26475e516f2384efaefe3dd97bd99f2176291354
>>>
>>> You can do something similar.  If it's considered useful, I can provide an
>>> hb_buffer_*() API to do it maybe.
>>>
>>
>> This definitely would be useful.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Grigori Goronzy
>>
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