Re: [dev] freetype2/fc pain

From: <sylvain.bertrand_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 13:52:33 +0000

On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 02:45:58PM +0200, David Demelier wrote:
> Unfortunately, I remember having terminus not rendering some kind of unicode
> characters not even emojis. I think it was some drawing characters.

If those "characters" are actually using "combined" unicode rendering, namely
using more than 1 unicode encoding point and font glyph (rough estimate), it's
over: you would need an unicode text shaper (which would use freetype as a
backend) to combine/transform "properly" the font glyphs into the 1 "char"
("extend grapheme cluster" in unicode terminology) you want.

If those "characters" are actually mapped to only 1 font glyph, well, they were
probably filtered out for some reasons (could be missing from the font files)
or it's a "limitation".

-- 
Sylvain
Received on Fri Oct 19 2018 - 15:52:33 CEST

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