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icu | harfbuzz | |
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15 | 33 | |
2,503 | 3,581 | |
3.5% | 3.5% | |
9.7 | 9.8 | |
6 days ago | 2 days ago | |
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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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icu
- FreeBSD replaces bubblesort with mergesort on SYSINTs, results in 100x speed
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Get wide characters one by one from a char * string
If you want graphemes, something lile libgrapheme might suit you. If just code points, then the utf8.h from ICU can work, but you can also roll your own if needed.
- Fatal error when I'm trying to build SQLite for Android with ICU enabled
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Should golang create a money library on the exp package?
OP, is this money in the context of storing and counting money, or money in the context of internationalization and localization? For the latter, you probably want bindings to icu or the x/text/currency package.
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Setting the TZ environment variable avoids thousands of system calls
https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/pull/2213
This affects all packages that have icu as a dependency, one of them being Node.js.
https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/37271
I discovered this the hard way when some code malfunctioned shortly after daylight savings time kicked in.
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PSA: Node 18.13+ changed date/time formatting
No clue! It seems like a very deep rabbit hole to go down. You can start here: https://github.com/unicode-org/icu Version 72 I believe is when this was changed.
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Charlock_holmes installation error, Windows 11.
Installing icu4c from https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/releases/tag/release-71-1 and put the path in "--with-icu-lib"
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libicui18n.so.58: cannot open shared object file
wget https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/archive/release-58-3.tar.gz
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How to cout a non-ASCII character within a non-ASCII string
You need something like icu. https://github.com/unicode-org/icu
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Me in the middle of a french conversation, when I forgot what gender a certain word is.
ICU, which ships as part of the core internationalization and localization frameworks of every major operating system, has a facility for transliterating keyboards! This is how you can type in Roman characters and get Devanagari in text, or enter pinyin and get Han characters. You can compose a Hiragana to Latin transliteration — but it’s a stretch to get actual English words this way.
harfbuzz
- HarfBuzz: Text Shaping Engine
- Rive Renderer – now open source and available on all platforms
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Libsodium: A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library
For C/C++ projects that use meson as the build system, there is an excellent way to manage dependencies:
https://mesonbuild.com/Wrapdb-projects.html
https://mesonbuild.com/Wrap-dependency-system-manual.html
meson will download and build the libraries automatically and give you a variable which you pass as a regular dependency into the built target:
https://github.com/qemu/qemu/tree/005ad32358f12fe9313a4a0191...
https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/tree/main/subprojects
https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/blob/37457412b3212463c5...
Or, if you're using proper operating systems, they're managed by the usual package manager, just like everything else.
- The Web Assembly Shaper
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Text Rendering Hates You
If you sympathize with the travails of people working on text rendering in applications, please consider supporting (among other projects):
1. The LibreOffice project (libreoffice.org), the free office application suite. This is where the rubber hits the road and developers deal with the extreme complexities of everything regarding text - shaping, styling, multi-object interaction, multi-language, you name it. And - they/we absolutely need donations to manage a project with > 200 million users: https://www.libreoffice.org/donate
2. harfbuzz (https://harfbuzz.github.io), and specifically Behdad Esfahood the main contributor. Although, TBH, I've not quite figured out whether you can donate to that or to him. At least star the project on GitHub I guess.
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ImGui or text rendering libraries
As for text, it depends very heavily on what exactly you need. Simple ASCII text and bitmap fonts? Just do it yourself or get a .bdf parser. Simple Latin/Cyrillic-like writing with ok-looking vector fonts (ttfs)? stb_truetype has all you need. Font hinting, subpixel rendering? You use freetype. More complex writing like Arabic? You will have to do shaping as well, say with HarfBuzz. Need right-to-left or unidirectional text? Hypenation? Go for platform APIs if you can (DirectWrite om Windows, CoreText on Mac).
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QuestPDF: Modern .NET library for PDF document generation
Gold standard? Even though serious bugs are not fixed [1] because "the code is too fragile to touch at this point"? Looks like Android uses HarfBuzz, if so it can't be that bad.
[1] https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/2814
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A Programmable Markup Language for Typesetting [pdf]
The linked libraries are not even close to solving limited subsets of problems solved by FreeType or HarfBuzz. No test is needed if they do not even have a working implementation of particular requisites: Do they work on heterogeneous layouts, directions, languages, locales, scripts, symbols and composites, extensions, variations, legacy, missing, partial or corrupted instructions, standards interpretations, platforms, output devices, nonstandard point structures and grids?
They do not. What they solve is almost a toy problem compared to the size, scope and breadth of these libraries.
Just because some project is implemented in Rust does not make it comparable never mind superior by default.
There is a world out there and it is not homogeneous format and standards-compliant Latin fonts in English LTR text in linear disposition with some generic rectangular subpixel rendering on a regular rectangular grid.
I warmly welcome you to browse closed issues of FreeType [1] and also the closed issues of HarfBuzz [2]. If you feel inspired please do also look into mailing lists and discussion pages related to the development, building, tracking and patching of packages of these projects in any of the numerous places it is used.
The only argument Rust people have is in relation WASM but if you insist in targeting WASM why not fork FreeType, strip it to the strict subset of features your application needs and target it?
Why do it in the first place? Why reinvent the wheel?
As such I will restate my view: I see no gain in using any of these subpar libraries.
[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/issues/?s...
[2] https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues?q=is%3Aclosed
- Harfbuzz 6.0
What are some alternatives?
utfcpp - UTF-8 with C++ in a Portable Way
imgui-sfml - Dear ImGui backend for use with SFML
apertium-tha - Apertium linguistic data for Thai
nanovg - Antialiased 2D vector drawing library on top of OpenGL for UI and visualizations.
manticoresearch - Easy to use open source fast database for search | Good alternative to Elasticsearch now | Drop-in replacement for E in the ELK soon
contour - Modern C++ Terminal Emulator
MacOSX-SDKs - A collection of those pesky SDK folders: MacOSX10.1.5.sdk thru MacOSX11.3.sdk
c-ares - A C library for asynchronous DNS requests
binwalk - Firmware Analysis Tool
imgui_sdl - ImGuiSDL: SDL2 based renderer for Dear ImGui
docker - Official docker for Manticore Search
Tehreer-Android - Standalone text engine for Android aimed to be free from platform limitations