[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 110230] [harfbuzz] Always pass correct text direction to HarfBuzz

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110230





--- Comment #4 from Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at google.com>  2013-02-19 14:48:53 PST ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > (In reply to comment #1)
> > This can result in inferior shaping, but is not as serious as letting HarfBuzz guess text direction, which has much more severe implications.
> 
> I already understand the processing. I was just trying to get to the bottom of this bug, which I understand now as a failure to pass the UBA determined directionality (and other lang/script info) to HB.

Yes.  It only happens when measuring text though.  Rendering is fine.  That happened as a result of this issue:

  https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=158969

> Are you working on or planning on working on this bug?

I'm studying the code to fix that, yes.  Since bashi is away, I don't think anyone else will be looking into it if I don't.

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