Pango vs Harfbuzz

[Mohit Sindhwani <ml3p onghu com>]

Hi All,

This is my first post to this list as I get started at looking at font 
and language support for one of our applications.  Our application runs 
on an embedded target and I want to make its language support 
independent of the operating system.

So, it seemed that implementing a stack based on Pango, Cairo, freetype 
and font config might be a good option since we could bundle the 
necessary fonts, etc. with our application and it could handle the 
necessary stuff within the application.  We already use UTF-8 within the 
database for all the dynamic text/ searchable entities, so we thought we 
should be fine.

However, as I started exploring, I read: http://behdad.org/text/ and got 
rather confused about Harfbuzz - should we use Pango or should we use 
Harfbuzz or should we use both?  Our target is a GL-ES 2.0 device (iOS, 
Android, Windows CE, etc.) and we are unsure if we should use GL 
directly or should we use Cairo (probably a question for a different 
mailing list).

It may be that I am not providing the correct information that you need 
(since it's my first time here).

Best Regards,
Mohit.
8/9/2012 | 12:43 PM.