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Re: [ft-devel] Devanagari complex glyph
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [ft-devel] Devanagari complex glyph |
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Fri, 04 Oct 2019 21:48:09 +0200 (CEST) |
> recently I was working on expanding my program to handle Hindi
> (Devanagari) complex glyph like: ( न + ् + न ) which translates into:
> न्न
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> I used old version of FT so I updated to last available version
> 2.10.1 but still I can not render that glyph properly, obtaining: न्
> न (without space).
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> I have installed a proper Devanagari .tff file (I am on Windows 10
> machine) and I have my program written in C++11.
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> My question, is this specific glyph (or combination of complex
> glyph) not yet supported by the auto-hinting (FT version 2.5.4)?
If you are compiling FreeType with HarfBuzz, the autohinter of the
current FreeType version should be able to properly hint all glyphs
(even the ones without a cmap code) that belong to the Devanagari
script.
Werner