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Re: Emacs text shaping using Harfbuzz


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Emacs text shaping using Harfbuzz
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 22:01:39 +0200

> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 21:48:24 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>       address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> > Cc: Khaled Hosny <address@hidden>,
> >  Ebrahim Byagowi <address@hidden>, Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>,
> >  John Wiegley <address@hidden>, Mohammad Nasirifar <address@hidden>,
> >  Behdad Esfahbod <address@hidden>
> > From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> > Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 10:47:18 -0800
> > 
> > The Emacs harfbuzz branch built fine for me on Fedora 29 (no surprise). 
> > I saw no problems, not that I would catch many (the Arabic I saw 
> > displayed OK to me, but I don't read Arabic so am not the best person to 
> > judge).
> 
> Thanks for trying the branch.

Btw, we should be able to get support for popular features that will
benefit users of simple scripts as well, like colored emoji and
ligatures.  We just need to extend Emacs itself for that, but AFAIK
Harfbuzz does support these features.  Work in these areas will be
greatly appreciated.



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