Since we're talking about script itemization, I noticed that MS DirectWrite is advertised as doing 'language-guided script itemization' [1]
Anybody have any insight into what this involves? James [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd371554(v=vs.85).aspx On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14-01-22 09:40 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > The word “proper” was missing from the previous sentence. It was using > > the script of the first non-common non-inherited character in the bidi > > run, falling back to Latin (which irritated me most, since Amiri has > > some locale-specific punctuation marks which did not work for bidi runs > > with no Arabic characters). Now the whole string is taken into account > > when doing script itemization, plus basic paired characters support > > thanks to the code borrowed from ICU. I think next is to added > > ScriptExtensions support, but that is for another day. > > Yes. We are going through this in Chromium right now [1]. The whole thing > becomes really hard really fast. I'll dump some ideas into a doc today. > > [1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=311372 > > Cheers, > -- > behdad > http://behdad.org/ > _______________________________________________ > HarfBuzz mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz >
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