I am Deepanshu(Trac: digib0y IRC:digib0y), I am one of the seven students selected for GSoC this year from Haiku. I will be working to add Harfbuzz support this summer.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/digib0y/2017-05-06_gsoc_2017_adding_harfbuzz_support_to_haiku/