ImageMagick does not link against a shaping engine
Christian Lerrahn <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.video.image-magick.bugs |
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| Message-ID | <20080503023631.6aa723d6@entropy> |
Hi, I tried to write Tamil labels to an image using ImageMagick and found it to do it incorrectly. Using Tamil UTF-8 fonts will result in wrong character order. This seems to be a result of ImageMagick not using any shaping engine that would take care of character order and ligatures (like in GTK+ based application pango often does). As the absence of shaping makes it impossible to write certain labels with certain fonts, I consider this not only a missing feature but a bug. Is there any chance ImageMagick could at least optionally link against some shaping engine in future versions? Cheers, Christian