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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
Cc: joostkremers@fastmail.fm, jwiegley@gmail.com, stefan@marxist.se,
	11075@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11075: 24.0.94; Arabic character composition
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 09:04:10 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <834l12p6w5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190923184000.GC53480@breton.holly.idiocy.org> (message from Alan Third on Mon, 23 Sep 2019 19:40:00 +0100)

> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 19:40:00 +0100
> From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>, John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>,
> 	Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>, 11075@debbugs.gnu.org,
> 	Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 05:23:51AM +0900, mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> 
> Ah, sorry, I must have misunderstood when we discussed it before.

What are the problems that prevent getting HarfBuzz to work in the
GNUstep port?  I think we want all the major supported platforms to be
able to build with HarfBuzz, since many modern features related to
sophisticated text shaping and display to be developed for Emacs will
be based on HarfBuzz facilities.





  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-24  6:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-23 15:44 bug#11075: 24.0.94; Arabic character composition Joost Kremers
2012-03-23 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-23 18:23   ` Joost Kremers
2012-03-23 18:39     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-03-27 14:33       ` Joost Kremers
2012-03-27 18:06         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-03  2:27           ` Kenichi Handa
2012-04-03  9:12             ` Joost Kremers
2012-04-02  7:21 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2012-04-02  7:44   ` Joost Kremers
2012-04-04  0:22     ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2017-09-25 14:01   ` Alan Third
2017-09-25 14:17     ` John Wiegley
2017-09-25 16:51       ` Alan Third
2019-09-20 22:45 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-09-21  6:35   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-22 11:54   ` Alan Third
2019-09-22 20:23     ` mituharu
2019-09-23 18:40       ` Alan Third
2019-09-24  6:04         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-09-27 21:39           ` Alan Third
2019-09-28  6:33             ` Eli Zaretskii

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