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The arabic sentence is correctly rendered. thanks for working on this, it was much needed.
The arabic sentence is correctly rendered. thanks for working on this, it was much needed.
Yes, indeed, it was rather quick for you to get these languages already properly rendering, impressive!
BTW, what can we do with your demo app? i compiled it but i couldn’t do anything with it, it just shows the same picture as the screenshot.
This app is just supposed to display what you see 
You can use the code from the application and re-use in other applications too.
I will soon work to integrate Harfbuzz library into app_server and probably extend BeOS API.
After that, you will be able to use that in Haiku applications and AFAIK for RTL support in Haiku we need to need to lot of changes(my initial idea for GSoC was to implement RTL in Haiku) but for now I can work on them after GSoC.
The Han / Chinese characters are rendered pretty nicely, though the font is like using Times New Roman (its look) or Comic Sans (the cancerous aspect) for UI. No matter the font rendering, if that font in the image becomes the CJK UI font for Haiku, it’ll look as bad as Windows 9x for a CJK user.
Noto CJK is a very good generic font for UI.
