So, with Grigori's announcement of ucdn [1], I'm lowering priority of adding this directly to HarfBuzz.
Cheers, behdad [1] https://github.com/grigorig/ucdn On 07/25/2012 07:54 PM, Samiullah Khawaja wrote: > Hi Behdad, > > Yes It would be nice to have a standalone unicode db support. Eagerly waiting > for something like this. > > Thanks, > Sami > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:50 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On 07/25/2012 07:18 PM, Samiullah Khawaja wrote: > > Hi, > > > > What about uniscribe? Will it be able to replace the icu/glib > dependency. I > > thought I can get rid of icu/glib dependency by using uniscribe. Is my > > assumption wrong? What does hb-uniscribe.cc file in harfbuzz-ng source > do? > > hb-uniscribe.cc is a backend delegating the whole shaping to the Windows > DLL. > With that, you don't need any Unicode callbacks whatsoever. > > It's not meant for production use, but it's actually not that bad. > Depends on > what your goals really are. > > > Are there any Windows APIs I can use and write a layer on it to replace > the > > icu/glib dependency? > > Not that I know of. I'll produce something tonight. > > behdad > > > Thanks for the help. > > Sami > > > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 2:11 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote: > > > > On 07/25/2012 04:58 PM, Grigori Goronzy wrote: > > > Unfortunately both ICU and glib are huge frameworks with their > own set > > > of dependencies. A stripped-down standalone library that provides > a > > > unicode character database and nothing more would be great to > have. > > > > I'm planning on shipping a barebone set of Unicode data internally > in HarfBuzz > > for such usecases. No concrete timeline right now, but it's an > afternoon's > > worth of hacking. > > > > behdad > > _______________________________________________ > > HarfBuzz mailing list > > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > <mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Samiullah Khawaja > > Software Engineer > > email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > voice: +(92) 0321-4184324 <tel:%2B%2892%29%200321-4184324> > > > > > -- > Samiullah Khawaja > Software Engineer > email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > voice: +(92) 0321-4184324 _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
