Hi Behdad, On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 00:12 -0800, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > 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."
hehe > 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. So who are these Sinhala script users that say this is more suitable? > 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. You broke two fonts (one deprecated and the other was later made to work with Uniscribe) that worked with Pango/ICU but it meant fonts made for Uniscribe automagically worked. > 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), Did you get any input from Sinhala script users? > 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. Really? Would both those groups of fonts work at the same time in, for example, a Libre Office (using HarfBuzz) document? > 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. Did you notice that fonts made for Uniscribe now have a subtle rendering error without the environment variable? Try out කෝ with a font made for Uniscribe. For example, try: http://www.icta.lk/attachments/1090_winnie.ttf http://www.icta.lk/attachments/1090_WARNA.ttf If you can accommodate both groups of fonts at the same time by default, that would be great. cya, # _______________________________________________ HarfBuzz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
