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What does this change in practice? Are there before/after screenshots?

• piadodjanho 7y ago
  For the western emacs user probably not much. Unfortunately, the ability to use non-latin typefaces in the apps are often (resasonably) neglect by most devs. Using HarfBuzz (that is a font shapping library), the dev don't have to worry about how the text is going to look in other languages, such arabic, chinese, etc. The library will take care of that. HarfBuzz is the same text engine used by Firefox and XeLaTex. Also it allows the user to use features such ligatures, font weight, emojis. Not sure if emacs will support those from the start.
  • agumonkey 7y ago
    Any potential perf improvements ?
    • donkeydoug 7y ago
      from the reddit thread: > Ligature support, yes. Also colored emoji and other similar features.