Investigate using harfbuzz, graphite2, icu, and fontconfig bindings.

[crlf0710]

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[XVilka]

Maybe it also makes sense to investigate the possible usage of Rust-written Skribo in the future - see the introductory blog post about it. Or RustType - alternative to FreeType in Rust.

[crlf0710]

RustType doesn't support Adobe font format (Type1/CFF) yet, let alone more complex OpenType features. Really wish it could make progress on this part.

[XVilka]

For the RustType there are bugs to track:

• OpenType - https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/rusttype/-/issues/137 (porting to https://github.com/RazrFalcon/ttf-parser)
• Adobe Type1 - https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/rusttype/-/issues/158

[XVilka]

Newly released Allsorts might be of interest too: https://yeslogic.com/blog/allsorts-rust-font-shaping-engine.html

[XVilka]

Note that RustType merged the PR to use ttf-parser instead:

• https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/rusttype/-/merge_requests/151
• https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/rusttype/-/commit/683c55e8b834888db709f7e34ecf61765d91a8c7

While it doesn't support TTF yet, it uses that library for OTF.

[burrbull]

dpx supports .dfont. But do we need this?