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		rwmj on March 28, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Brutal OS reached milestone 4 Honestly the amount of crazy code involved in Linux font rendering[1], and then you get to CJKV support[2], it's mind-boggling. Even then, it's nowhere near as good as macOS :-/ [1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango & https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz [2] https://www.amazon.co.uk/CJKV-Information-Processing-Ken-Lun...

copperx on March 28, 2022 [–]

I'll disagree. Linux has better font rendering than Windows and macOS.

jibbers on March 29, 2022 | [–]

Can you expand on that a little? I know a little bit about how Windows and macOS handle font rendering, but I know nothing about how Linux does things.

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