[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] RFR: 8143177: Integrate harfbuzz opentype layout engine per JEP 258

[Steven Loomis]

I have reviewed the non-harfbuzz portion (outside of the /harfbuzz/ 
directory) and it looks good so far.

-s

On 11/17/2015 4:05 PM, Philip Race wrote:
> Webrev : http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~prr/8143177/
> Bug : https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8143177
>
> This webrev contains the changes accumulated in the harfbuzz project 
> forest
> that migrate JDK from using ICU for opentype font layout to harfbuzz 
> for the same.
>
> The change does not introduce API. It is mostly adding the harfbuzz 
> library.
> The ICU library remains there but is no longer the default.
> Eventually (not necessarily in 9) it may be removed once we are 
> comfortable
> with harfbuzz.
> You may select ICU by using -Dsun.font.layoutengine=icu
>
> You may see which layout engine is in use by using 
> -Dsun.font.layoutengine.verbose=true
> it will print either "Using harfbuzz", or "Using ICU".
>
> The change has no impact on typical Latin script rendering but is a 
> big advance
> for complex scripts and also applies if you select kerning or 
> ligatures for Latin.
> However the latter is only detectable if the font implements support 
> for these.
> By "big advance" I mean that ICU has not been updated to recognise 
> recent opentype features.
> So harfbuzz should fix a number of things but unexpected changes that 
> look wrong
> should be reported so we can investigate.
>
> To use harfbuzz we invoke its shaper and we provide a way to get jdk 
> font information.
> This means that we do not need a different layer depending on whether 
> freetype or t2k
> is used. It also enables some caching in the JDK font layer.
>
> On macosx harfbuzz does not natively read the AAT tables but will 
> invoke CoreText.
> This does mean that an AAT font installed on Linux would not be 
> processed but
> this is not a significant issue since AAT fonts are not found other 
> than on macosx.
>
> The majority of the files in the webrev are harfbuzz itself, changed 
> only to comply
> with JDK whitespace rules. Reviewers should probably concentrate on 
> all of the rest.
> I've listed it so that all those files are at the beginning and you 
> can ignore all those
> that follow that are in the "harfbuzz" directory.
>
> The harfbuzz version used here is 1.0.6 which is the latest source 
> release (at the time of writing).
> We expect to update this to keep reasonably current.
>
> I would like to push this in on Friday, but at the very latest Monday 
> because of the
> upcoming Feature Complete date so there are a couple of days to make 
> small
> tweaks for serious problems but there will be plenty of time after 
> integration to fix
> remaining problems.
>
> -phil.
>