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opentype “locl” Localized Forms

Linux LibreOffice 4.1.0 will now support opentype localized forms. Here’s a screenshot of the Linux Libertine O font applied to the same text on each line. One line’s language set to Serbian, the other to Russian. The language of the text gets propagated down correctly to the underlying text layout engine to allow the correct localized Serbian forms to be rendered.

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7 Responses to “opentype “locl” Localized Forms”

  1. Goran says:
    Tuesday, March 12th, 2013 at 6:06 pm

    You made my day happy :)

  2. Fitoschido says:
    Thursday, March 14th, 2013 at 2:22 am

    Awesome work! :D

  3. Behdad Esfahbod says:
    Thursday, March 14th, 2013 at 3:20 am

    So, finally switched to HarfBuzz?

  4. Behdad Esfahbod says:
    Thursday, March 14th, 2013 at 3:21 am

    I see that the answer is no. Just do that already…

  5. Caolán says:
    Friday, March 15th, 2013 at 12:08 am

    Whether using harfbuzz or icu is basically irrelevant to this btw, the real work was in convincing writer to correctly propagate the language of the text down to the eventual text layout thingy.

    There is an experimental use-harfbuzz patch that we should get around to applying, but that’s orthogonal to this.

  6. dennis says:
    Thursday, March 28th, 2013 at 5:09 pm

    Just crazy question: isn’t a “case-clause” better than these ~5000 if/else if ? XD

    (more readability and likely faster!)

  7. Caolán says:
    Friday, May 3rd, 2013 at 4:35 pm

    you can’t switch on a string

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