[boost] boost::freetype - extension for boost::gil

From: Tom Brinkman (reportbase_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-15 18:51:36

>> Rendering text is quite a hard problem. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I
>> think the approach you sketch assumes that there is a one-to-one
>> mapping of characters to glyphs. This is fairly restrictive for
>> English (e.g. no ligatures are possible); it is remarkably
>> ungeneralisable to other languages. Most languages, even if written in
>> the Latin script, require more sophisticated processing.

>> I imagine it may be a better approach to pass a string of (Unicode?)
>> characters to a function that renders them all at once.

My wrapper does not require that the vector contains a list of only single
glyphs.
You could also iterate over glyph-pairs or glyph-triples just as easily.  So

as far as I know, there is no reason why you can't do "unicode" or
"ligatures".