[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 172565] Add emoji support to wincairo

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172565

--- Comment #9 from Myles C. Maxfield <mmaxfield at apple.com> ---
(In reply to Don Olmstead from comment #8)
> (In reply to Myles C. Maxfield from comment #7)
> > (In reply to Don Olmstead from comment #6)
> > > (In reply to Myles C. Maxfield from comment #5)
> > > > > We plan to move to ... HarfBuzz
> > > > 
> > > > Why? DirectWrite is more correct and doesn't require a third-party library.
> > > 
> > > We'd like things to match our PlayStation port which is Freetype and Harfbuzz
> > 
> > The WinCairo port doesn't run on the PlayStation, though. It seems silly to
> > make the WinCairo port worse because of a completely separate project.
> 
> There really aren't any maintainers for WinCairo so it made sense for us to
> make that call. When we're at that point I can always make it an option in
> the CMake configuration so people can choose the font shaping backend.

It's probably just a question of which ComplexTextController to compile, so switching it out should be easy.

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