Re: [ft] Does FT provide shaping functionality...?

[mpsuzuki]

Hi

On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:45:05 +0000
Anson <address@hidden> wrote:
>...to support features like
>1. two-dimensional glyph advancing (e.g. going up or down as well as left)
>2. glyph selection depending on more than just the one character currently
>under consideration (e.g. two adjacent characters may be represented by a
>single "ligature" glyph).
>
>Things that you need for script like Devanagari.

No. FreeType does not provide such features, at least, at present.
You will have to check ICU, Pango, Qt or m17n-lib.

Regards,
mpsuzuki