I'll reiterate the HarfBuzz development philosophy and what happened about this Sinhala issue. =
As far as I'm concerned, when I say, on behalf of HarfBuzz, that "we don't support X", what I mean is: "we currently don't support X, and we currently don't plan to support X, but we may do in the future." And I think that's quite representative of most Free Software / Open Source projects. I don't think we need to explain why we changed designs. We did, because we found it more suitable for our users. Now to the specific issue at hand: From what I understand, in the August/September release of HarfBuzz, we broke some fonts that used to work with old HarfBuzz / Pango. Those fonts were NOT working correctly with Uniscribe. Back then, we decided that we only want to support the Uniscribe-correct fonts. Now, in November 2012, based on various input (Firefox, Chrome Linux, GNOME), we decided that we want to support both categories of fonts: those that work fine with Uniscribe, and those that used to work with old HarfBuzz / Pango. I don't see how that can be a limitation to a user. As such, I have no interest in arguing about how that decision was made, and I don't think it's relevant to any user of HarfBuzz. If you have a font that is not addressed correctly with HarfBuzz as is, let us know and we will try to accommodate that. behdad _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
