1.6.0

System Internals / HarfBuzz - Behdad Esfahbod [behdad.org] - 13 October 2017 10:30 UTC



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Overview of changes leading to 1.6.0 Friday, October the 13th, 2017



- Update to Unicode 10.

- Various Indic and Universal Shaping Engine fixes as a result of HarfBuzz Hackfest with Jonathan Kew at Web Engines Hackfest at the Igalia offices in A Coruña, Spain. Thanks Igalia for having us!

- Implement Unicode Arabic Mark Ordering Algorithm UTR#53.

- Implement optical sizing / tracking in CoreText backend, using new API hb_font_set_ptem().

- Allow notifying hb_font_t that underlying FT_Face changed sizing, using new API hb_ft_font_changed().

- More Graphite backend RTL fixes.

- Fix caching of variable font shaping plans.

- hb-view / hb-shape now accept following new arguments:

o --unicodes: takes a list of hex numbers that represent Unicode codepoints.

New API: +hb_face_get_table_tags() +hb_font_set_ptem() +hb_font_get_ptem() +hb_ft_font_changed()

25846cc 1.6.0
NEWS | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
configure.ac | 2 +-
docs/harfbuzz-docs.xml | 4 ++++
3 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Upstream: cgit.freedesktop.org

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