> I believe what Behdad means is: > > for decomposition: if HB is faced with the task of rendering U+0958 but the > font doesn't provide that glyph, then should HB try to decompose it to > U+0915 and U+093C and render the sequence?
definitelly YES. > for composition: (I'm not too sure about *this* one but) if HB has to render > a decomposed sequence which has an equivalent precomposed character, should > HB try to lookup the glyph for that precomposed character (as it may give > proper placement of diacritic etc)? a) if the font doesn't provide the accent (or any other char of the decomposed sequence), I'd say YES b) if not, I would say NO. > I vote YES on both accounts. The former would be useful to present a > meaningful rendering to the user and the latter would be useful for > typographical finesse. > _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
