On मंगळवार 07 मार्च 2012 06:58 म.पू., Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > Hi all, > > Right now HarfBuzz has two complex shapers: > > 1. The one called arabic handles all cursive scripts (Arabic, Mandaic, > Mongolian, N'ko, and Syriac), > > 2. The one called indic handles (or eventually will handle) all scripts > requiring Indic-like, or simpler, reordering. > > Now, as more people start looking into HarfBuzz, I'm sure this can only cause > more confusion. Ie. people going around saying it only supports Arabic and > Indic. So I'm leaning towards renaming them, to "cursive" and "reordering" > perhaps. For some other scripts we would still need individual shapers. > Thai/Lao comes to mind. Hangul maybe. What else? > > Anyway, what do people think? I'd rather not to have to do this, but if it > reduces pain in the future, I'll do the work.
Indic shaper supports some non-indic scripts as well. So yes, using generic name looks logical. - Pravin Satpute _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
