Hello, Please see: https://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-35221
For 8u20, we would like to make Freetype and Pango the default option for handling text on Linux (replacing T2K and ICU respectively). Notes: - Windows and Mac already use native technologies for handling text by default (DirectWrite and CoreText respectively). - Open-builds, which never include T2K, were already using Freetype. - Differently than T2K and ICU, which we ship as part of JavaFX. Freetype and Pango are expected to be available on the system. - If Freetype is not available on the system, T2K will be used instead automatically. - If Pango is not available on the system, Freetype will still be used for rendering text. But complex text support will not work. - The user can set -Dprism.text=t2k to force T2K to be used. Note: this is not an official API, but good for testing at times. Let me of any concerns you might have. Ah, if anyone would like to provide us a Harfbuzz implementation that would be great. See PangoGlyphLayout.java and pango.c as reference. Regards, Felipe
