harfbuzz for Chrome iOS device
Reported by
mayura.v...@gmail.com,
Mar 6 2017
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.88 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce the problem: Apple coretext engine has a lot of bug with Indian languages. Chrome on iOS uses Safari webkit, which persists with Apple coretext bug. Please use harfbuzz text engine instead of Apple coretext What is the expected behavior? use harfbuzz text engine for Chrome in iOS devices What went wrong? bugs with Indian languages. Did this work before? No Chrome version: 57.0.2987.88 Channel: beta OS Version: OS X 10.12.3 Flash Version:
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Mar 7 2017
We don't control the renderer in order to replace the font drawing. Apple controls all of WKWebView.
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Mar 7 2017
Could somebody please request enhancement with Apple to allow harfbuzz usage in iOS. Apple allows it in Mac. Microsoft uses Directwrite with "MS Office for Mac, 2016" Chrome browser uses Harfbuzz in mac. I could it myself in bugreport @apple, but I would be speaking for Google (App developer) and I do not know all the technical details. Please do the needful.
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Mar 8 2017
iOS and Mac have very different policies. The iOS AppStore forbids us from using anything except WKWebView, and it likely will never use harfbuzz. We are doing everything we can already to address this restriction, but the decision is theirs to make and we cannot work around it.
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Mar 10 2017
You can report your issue (with an *specific* testcase, what is actual behavior, what is expected) on bugs.webkit.org also, there is a chance that your bug can be considered a webkit bug and its fix will help Chrome on iOS also. |
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Comment 1 by tapted@chromium.org
, Mar 6 2017Labels: -OS-Mac Hotlist-EM OS-iOS