Bug 26741

Summary: [Gtk] Share complex text support with Chromium Linux
Product: WebKit Reporter: Jan Alonzo <jmalonzo>
Component: WebKitGTKAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: Normal CC: evan, fujisawa.jun, mrobinson, ryuan.choi, xan.lopez
Priority: P2 Keywords: Gtk
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Rewrite of FontGtk to use harfbuzz-ng none

Description Jan Alonzo 2009-06-25 17:02:13 PDT 
Bug #25068 will be adding complex text support in Chromium Linux using HarfBuzz. It would be nice if we can share the same codebase (with the exception of the Skia bits).
Comment 1 Xan Lopez 2009-07-20 02:53:11 PDT 
Not sure, it seems more natural for us to use Pango, which already uses HarfBuzz internally AFAIK.
Comment 2 Xan Lopez 2009-08-31 14:04:08 PDT 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Not sure, it seems more natural for us to use Pango, which already uses
> HarfBuzz internally AFAIK.

Apparently the people with a clue about this think that using Harfbuzz directly makes more sense, so disregard that :)

Some links Behdad pasted on IRC to read about the APIs we should be using to write a harfbuzz backend:

- http://behdad.org/text/
- http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/harfbuzz/2009-August/000359.html
Comment 3 Evan Martin 2009-12-20 02:43:30 PST 
Created attachment 45265 [details]
Rewrite of FontGtk to use harfbuzz-ng
Comment 4 Evan Martin 2009-12-20 02:51:48 PST 
This patch seems to work, but Harfbuzz doesn't yet do any complex shaping so it's hard to know.  :(
Comment 5 Martin Robinson 2012-12-11 01:36:05 PST 
Evan, thanks to your initial kick in this direction, we've finally completed this.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 92098 ***