Re: Ligatures (was: Unify the Platforms: Cairo+FreeType+Harfbuzz Everywhere (except TTY))

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 15:01:49 -0400
> 
> I asked on Firefox' Matrix server.  Here is a lightly edited transcript:

Thanks.  So it's pure heuristic, and works only in simple cases.

We could ask on the HarfBuzz list how many fonts provide meaningful
information for the hb_ot_layout_get_ligature_carets function to
return useful data.  If someone is interested in working on that, that
is.