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First thing that comes to mind (as a GUI developer that is currently translating a product) is that the text renderer can't handle accents above and below Latin

First thing that comes to mind (as a GUI developer that is currently translating a product) is that the text renderer can't handle accents above and below Latin characters. (e.g. Let's buy crème fraîche in Curaçao) I'd also be surprised if it can handle right-to-left strings as well.

wffurr 5y ago
Flutter uses Skia for text rendering and layout; the same rendering engine used by Chrome, Android, and others. I'm beyond confident it can handle all of those situations. Flutter demos have a localization dropdown for selecting different locales, of which the gallery demo at least supports many, well beyond FIGS: https://gallery.flutter.dev/#/ https://gallery.flutter.dev/#/ Note those demos have other problems that make me crazy, like the copious overuse of non-selectable text. Why the default "Text" widget is non-selectable is a total mystery to me: https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/widgets/Text-class.html https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/widgets/Text-class.html You have to instead use the "SelectableText" widget: https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/SelectableText-class.html https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/SelectableText-clas... I have plenty of complaints about Flutter, but accessibility and localization aren't among them.
- jhgb 5y ago
  Except Skia is not a text renderer. Skia won't correctly position glyphs for you. It can only render glyphs for you at positions that you provide.
  - wffurr 5y ago
    Your understanding of Skia may be out of date. See SkParagraph: https://skia.googlesource.com/skia/+/refs/heads/main/modules/skparagraph/include/Paragraph.h https://skia.googlesource.com/skia/+/refs/heads/main/modules... And the experimental SkText API: https://skia.googlesource.com/skia/+/refs/heads/main/experimental/sktext/include/SkText.md https://skia.googlesource.com/skia/+/refs/heads/main/experim...
    - jhgb 5y ago
      It's possible; I haven't looked at Skia for some time. As far as I can tell, in the past, https://skia.org/docs/user/tips/#does-skia-shape-text-kerning https://skia.org/docs/user/tips/#does-skia-shape-text-kernin... applied.

wffurr 5y ago

Flutter uses Skia for text rendering and layout; the same rendering engine used by Chrome, Android, and others. I'm beyond confident it can handle all of those situations. Flutter demos have a localization dropdown for selecting different locales, of which the gallery demo at least supports many, well beyond FIGS: https://gallery.flutter.dev/#/ https://gallery.flutter.dev/#/ Note those demos have other problems that make me crazy, like the copious overuse of non-selectable text. Why the default "Text" widget is non-selectable is a total mystery to me: https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/widgets/Text-class.html https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/widgets/Text-class.html You have to instead use the "SelectableText" widget: https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/SelectableText-class.html https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/SelectableText-clas... I have plenty of complaints about Flutter, but accessibility and localization aren't among them.

jhgb 5y ago
Except Skia is not a text renderer. Skia won't correctly position glyphs for you. It can only render glyphs for you at positions that you provide.
- wffurr 5y ago
  Your understanding of Skia may be out of date. See SkParagraph: https://skia.googlesource.com/skia/+/refs/heads/main/modules/skparagraph/include/Paragraph.h https://skia.googlesource.com/skia/+/refs/heads/main/modules... And the experimental SkText API: https://skia.googlesource.com/skia/+/refs/heads/main/experimental/sktext/include/SkText.md https://skia.googlesource.com/skia/+/refs/heads/main/experim...
  - jhgb 5y ago
    It's possible; I haven't looked at Skia for some time. As far as I can tell, in the past, https://skia.org/docs/user/tips/#does-skia-shape-text-kerning https://skia.org/docs/user/tips/#does-skia-shape-text-kernin... applied.