Opened 2 years ago
Last modified 11 months ago
#17414 new enhancement
Ligatures support for fonts
| Reported by: | LianBg | Owned by: | axeld |
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| 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 , 2 years ago
| Component: | User Interface → Servers/app_server |
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| Keywords: | font fonts typeface text rendering removed |
| Owner: | changed from to |
comment:2 by , 2 years ago
| Milestone: | → Unscheduled |
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| Version: | → R1/Development |
comment:3 by , 11 months ago
This is also used by some "icon fonts" on the web, for example in the current version of Gerrit.
Related: https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/6352