[webkit-dev] Font layout features

[Evan Martin]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Evan Martin <evan at chromium.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Jason Rukman <JasonR at bsquare.com> wrote:
>> I guess my main question is; "What does pango do for the gtk port?" Do I need to worry that we are not using it and just using freetype?
>
> Complex text.  Without Pango or Harfbuzz or ICU you won't properly
> display Arabic, Hebrew, Indic scripts, and strange combinations of
> more ordinary letters involving combining characters "m" plus "acute".

Sorry, left out a key phrase above:
'and strange combinations of more ordinary letters involving combining
characters *SUCH AS* "m" plus "acute".'