HarfBuzz brings professional typography to the desktop

Posted Dec 19, 2017 11:05 UTC (Tue) by atelszewski (guest, #111673)
Parent article: HarfBuzz brings professional typography to the desktop

Hi,

As a developer of embedded systems, including those very small, I hate everything other than ASCII and English language. And English not being my mother tongue.

On the same occasion, I have great level of admiration to the author of HarfBuzz.
I'm not even trying to make the smallest guess on what he has to come through
to achieve the goal.

That is a hell of a lot of work. Or more.

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Best regards,
Andrzej Telszewski

HarfBuzz brings professional typography to the desktop

Posted Dec 19, 2017 21:53 UTC (Tue) by SEJeff (guest, #51588) [Link]

Ironically, I believe Behdad started working on Harfbuzz due to the current open source glyph rendering libraries doing really poorly with non-latin based character sets. Being that Behdad is Persian and Farsi / Arabic tend to use glyphs, it makes sense why it was important to him. Luckily to the world, Google hired him to work on pango and harfbuzz fulltime.