GNU bug report logs - #11075
24.0.94; Text shaping/Harfbuzz support on macOS

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From: mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp
To: "Alan Third" <alan <at> idiocy.org>
Cc: Joost Kremers <joostkremers <at> fastmail.fm>, John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com>,
 Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 11075 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: bug#11075: 24.0.94; Arabic character composition
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 05:23:51 +0900

>> Since that was written, harfbuzz was enabled by default.  And wouldn't
>> that library have good support for this anyhow?
>>
>> > It might still be an issue on GNUstep, though. I think it still uses
>> > nsfont.m.
>>
>> I'm not a GNUstep user so I can't easily test this.
>>
>> But would the recent harfbuzz support (enabled by default on GNUstep
>> too, I assume) fix this?  Do you know, Eli?
>
> As I understand it Harfbuzz is not supported on the NS port at all. I
> know that Yamamoto Mitsuharu wrote a proof of concept, but I don’t
> believe it was ever finished.

It is for the mac-ct font backend, and doesn't work on GNUstep.

			     YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
			mituharu <at> math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp

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