[ft-devel] Loading empty bitmap fails? (Re: Freetype-devel Digest, Vol 151, Issue 6)

[Hin-Tak Leung]

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On Fri, 4/8/17,  <address@hidden> wrote:

 Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 17:31:47 +0100
 From: Behdad Esfahbod <address@hidden>
 To: "address@hidden"
 <address@hidden>
 Subject: [ft-devel] Loading empty
 bitmap fails?
 
 
> With color fonts, I'm finding that
> loading space character is failing with
> FreeType even though there's cmap entry
> in the font.  It should result in
> empty glyph bitmap IMO. 
> NotoColorEmoji reproduces for me, as does
> emojione-apple.ttf
 
 I am not saying this is right or wrong - but it has been my experience that 
the space character doesn't do any drawing and therefore does not generate a 
bitmap.

I found that when I was re-writing freetype-py's demo drawing code from numpy 
to cairo a few months ago.