Re: [sinhala-technical] Sinhala Rendering in Firefox 4.0 Beta
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From: Harshula <har...@gm...> - 2011-02-02 02:06:32
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On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 23:21 +0530, கா. சேது | කා. සේතු | K. Sethu wrote: > I think it is better to use the now more common referencing : Harfbuzz-ng . It isn't the common term anymore. To avoid ambiguity, you can use harfbuzz-ng. However, when you see the term "harfbuzz" these days you *should* assume the reference is to harfbuzz-ng. e.g. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/2010-06-15#GFX_Update > Won't Harfbuzz-ng have them in coming months? Behdad had mentioned in > [ http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/harfbuzz/2010-December/001012.html > ] that Indic would be included by March . It's like waiting for the messiah! :-) e.g. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/harfbuzz/2011-January/001031.html > What really is meant by "...text layout deferred to the OS text layout > engine" ? Is it simply that layout engine used by the desktop (Pango > or Qt) in the host OS or something else? It seems like for some scripts text layout will be done by Pango (GNU/Linux) and Uniscribe (MS Windows). You can double check this by seeing if Pango is linked to the relevant Firefox binary. cya, # |