Opened 3 years ago

Last modified 18 months ago

#17414 new enhancement

Ligatures support for fonts

Reported by: LianBg Owned by: axeld
Priority: low Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Servers/app_server Version: R1/Development
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked By: Blocking:
Platform: All

Description

Hi there,

so far, Haiku does not support Ligatures in fonts. I have tested this using the logographic system of the font Linja Pona for the Toki Pona language. (https://github.com/janSame/linja-pona/)

With this font enabled, it SHOULD display Toki Pona words (like "toki", "li", "e", "musi" etc.) as hieroglyphs. It doesn't, though. It does work on LibreOffice though, because it has a custom font rendering system AFAIK.

As I am in the process of suggesting a Toki Pona translation for Haiku, this is a minor roadblock (the language is usually written using Latin script), but would still be an enhancement also for languages that use ligatures naturally.

Change History (3)

comment:1 by nephele, 3 years ago

Component: User InterfaceServers/app_server
Keywords: font fonts typeface text rendering removed
Owner: changed from stippi to axeld

comment:2 by pulkomandy, 3 years ago

Milestone: Unscheduled
Version: R1/Development

comment:3 by pulkomandy, 18 months ago

This is also used by some "icon fonts" on the web, for example in the current version of Gerrit.

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