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From: Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: how reliable is rendering of complex scripts?
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 07:39:00 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151002.073900.472512461.wl@gnu.org> (raw)


Folks,


I wonder how reliable emacs displays complex scripts like Devanagari
or Arabic.  For example, the maintainers of the HarfBuzz library did
extensive comparisons of the rendering results with the MS engine to
iron out zillions of small buglets in OpenType handling.

AFAIK, Emacs relies on the m17n libraries, at least on GNU/Linux (no
idea about other environments), controlling the OpenType handling
(partially?) with Lisp code – are there test suites to compare the
results?


    Werner

             reply	other threads:[~2015-10-02  5:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-02  5:39 Werner LEMBERG [this message]
2015-10-02  7:30 ` how reliable is rendering of complex scripts? Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-04  4:39   ` Werner LEMBERG
2015-10-04  7:07     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-04  8:09       ` Werner LEMBERG
2015-10-04  9:12         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-04  9:40           ` Werner LEMBERG
2015-10-04  9:57             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-04 18:06       ` John Wiegley
2015-10-04 19:45         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-04 21:43           ` John Wiegley
2015-10-05  6:05             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-05 18:18               ` John Wiegley
2015-10-05 19:22                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-06 16:17                   ` Eli Zaretskii

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