CoreText does automatic font fallback (AKA "cascading") for characters
not supported by the requested font, and provides no way to turn it off,
so detect if the returned run uses a font other than the requested one
and fill in the buffer with .notdef glyphs instead of random indices
glyph from a different font.
Based on patch from Jonathan Kew and data from Apple.
It's not working correctly though, and I suspect I'm hitting a bug in
CoreText. When I do this:
hb-shape /Library/Fonts/Zapfino.ttf ZapfinoZapfino --shaper coretext \
--features=-liga
I expect both ligatures to turn off, but only the second one does:
[Z_a_p_f_i_n_o=0+2333|Z=7+395|a=8+285|p_f=9+433|i=11+181|n=12+261|o=13+250]
whereas if I disable 'dlig' instead of 'liga', both are turned off.
Smells...
Doesn't resolve conflicting feature settings.
Does not provide Uniscribe-compatible results, but should at least avoid
breaking hb-view due to out-of-order cluster values.
For RTL runs, ensure cluster values are non-increasing (instead of
non-decreasing).
Does not attempt to handle clusters in a Uniscribe- or HarfBuzz-compatible way;
just returns the original string indexes that CT maintains. These may even be
out-of-order in the case of reordrant glyphs.
Khaled Hosny
Behdad Esfahbod
Jonathan Kew