Re: [ft-devel] OpenType Feature support in FreepType

[Himanshu Joshi]

Hi Behdad,

  Okey, I checked Android KitKat (Android 4.4) and we have "harfbuzz-ng present in "android/external". Old Harfbuzz is also present, I have not checked which one is really used as facing some compile issues for Kitkat on my machine :(

On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <address@hidden> wrote:

On 13-11-08 05:55 AM, Himanshu Joshi wrote:
> Hi,
>  Harfbuzz was used by Android from start as harfbuzz is the base complex
> rendering (OTF supporting) engine and also used in Webkit as well.

Right.  The old HarfBuzz didn't have swash enabled by default IIRC.

> With KitKat
> I think Andorid is shifted to harfbuzz-ng (need to check) latest version of
> Harfbuzz.

That actually happened in the version before KitKat (4.3?) I believe.

behdad

> Thanx
> Himanshu
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden

> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>
>     > Does FreeType engine handle OpenType feature "Swash" internally?
>
>     No.
>
>     > Or this requires the layout engine to support?
>
>     Yes.
>
>     > In Android platform, like Android 4.2.2, is the feature support?
>
>     Android now uses HarfBuzz for layout, AFAIK.  HarfBuzz provides Swash
>     support.  However, I don't know at which version Android switched to
>     HarfBuzz.
>
>
>         Werner
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