Godot: Add HarfBuzz for text shaping (complex scripts, font ligatures)

Created on 29 Jul 2017  路  3Comments  路  Source: godotengine/godot

Change DynamicFont to use HarfBuzz (MIT license) to handle:

  1. Context-sensitive shaping and ligatures for complex scripts (Arabic, Devanagari, Thai etc.);
  2. Programming ligatures with fonts like Iosevka & Fira Code in script editor.

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Related: #3081

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This is far from finished and a hell of a mess, but here's early in-progress screenshot (bidi display, language specific shaping, OT typographic features).

Test build:
test

3.0 alpha 1:
test3a

I'll probably make WIP PR next week.

picture bruvzg on 18 Aug 2017
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Would be ideal to just adapt the relevant code instead of using a pretty big library for it

reduz picture reduz on 29 Jul 2017

This is far from finished and a hell of a mess, but here's early in-progress screenshot (bidi display, language specific shaping, OT typographic features).

Test build:
test

3.0 alpha 1:
test3a

I'll probably make WIP PR next week.

bruvzg picture bruvzg on 18 Aug 2017
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Superseded by godotengine/godot-proposals#4.

akien-mga picture akien-mga on 26 May 2020
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