Quick update on project status

[Phil Race]

Roman,

TextLayout has a bunch of  java implementation in java.awt.font and 
sun.font but
the meat of opentype layout which is what I think you are getting at is 
the IBM ICU library.
We work very closely with those guys to keep us fairly well in sync 
there and I don't
forsee us changing to anything else without an extremely good reason.

-phil.

> Very cool! I was wondering, how other font stuff is implemented in
> (Open)JDK, most importantly TextLayout. Are you using some external
> implementation for that (I think freetype doesn't cover TextLayout), or
> an own implementation? In GNU Classpath we had an own implementation,
> based on java.text.Bidi, but it might make sense to use some external
> lib (like HarfBuzz).
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