Guess glyph string for placeholder glyphs without code points #2010
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Guess placeholder string from glyph name for glyphs without code points. Checks for the extensions used for Arabic positional forms and add Zero Width Joiner as appropriate to force the desired positional form. The glyph-shape-placeholder div needs dir="auto" as ZWJ gets ignored at string boundaries if text direction is LTR (which is the default in HTML). With dir="auto", the direction will be resolved based on the string, so it will be RTL for Arabic text.
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Thank you very much! I wonder if the same can be achieved with the "associatedCodePoints" feature. This does roughly the same (including the "_" split), except it also takes the font's cmap/glyphMap into account, and only falls back to glyphs-data if the font doesn't define the base glyph name. I think we can add Alternatively, we could consider decoupling the making of the placeholder string from the GlyphCell completely, and pass the placeholder string as an additional argument to the GlyphCell constructor. As for the placeholder string in the canvas: let's indeed focus on the GlyphCell first, and I'll try to figure out what we need to do to make it work in the canvas, too. |
See the discussion in #2005
This works in the font overview, but I didn’t manage to find the relevant code in editor, so editing such glyphs still does not shows blank placeholder.