[cairo] Quartz bug with right-to-left and bidirectional text

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Ben Schmidt wrote:
> OK. Take some of that back.
> 
> It looks like it may be a Pango bug after all. Looks like Pango must
> conditionally compile different code depending on whether the Cairo
> Quartz backend is present or not. I had presumed it just linked to the
> library and made the same API calls regardless of the Cairo backend.
> 
> I have managed to come up with a small test case. It's a pretty dirty
> hack; it doesn't clean up after itself at all properly or anything like
> that. It's kinda just relevant chunks of code from Vim, API docs and
> examples all cobbled together with whatever variables seemed necessary
> to make it work. I have barely any idea how it works. But it does work,
> and it does expose the bug, and with few lines of code.
> 
> It seems the bug is that pango_shape ignores analysis.level of a Pango
> itemisation, so this cannot be set to force text to be treated as
> un-embedded and therefore force left-to-right rendering. The bug only
> occurs when the Cairo Quartz backend is compiled in, though.

This sounds like a bug in pango's atsui module.  Look under
pango/modules/basic/basic-atsui.c

Regards,

behdad

> I suppose it's a somewhat unusual use case, but it is an important one,
> and certainly the rendering should be backend-independent.
> 
> I'd appreciate it if someone could help ascertain whether this is indeed
> a Pango bug (in which case I'll hop over and report it there) or a Cairo
> bug. If it's a Cairo bug, I'd love it if we could get it into the bug
> tracker and if it supports it, have me CCed when any progress is made on
> it.
> 
> Test case attached (includes non-ASCII UTF-8 text), as well as
> screenshots of the rendering with and without the Quartz backend.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ben.
> 
> 
> 
> Ben Schmidt wrote:
>> G'day, Vlad,
>>
>> Yes, Pango is being used, but the problem goes away as soon as Cairo is
>> compiled without the Quartz backend and just uses the regular X backend,
>> so it is definitely a Cairo problem.
>>
>> I suspect the problem is that some Quartz API is smarter than we want it
>> to be, and is adding some kind of bidi support that we don't want. IIRC,
>> it renders single glyphs just fine; it's only when multiple glyphs are
>> rendered at a time that they get messed up.
>>
>> What kind of test case are you after? I'm not really a Cairo/Pango/GTK
>> programmer, but just a user, so I might struggle to provide more. The
>> images and text file I provided at the link I gave form a pretty small
>> test case. I realise they require Vim as I formulated them, but they
>> probably actually don't--I suspect anything that renders the provided
>> text file in a window would show up the problem. And a tester need know
>> nothing about Hebrew--if the rendering of the Quartz backend can be made
>> to match that of the non-Quartz backend, it should indicate the bug is
>> fixed.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Ben.
>>
>>
>>
>> Vladimir Vukicevic wrote:
>>> Hey Ben,
>>>
>>> Can you provide a testcase for this?  The quartz surface backend
>>> itself just deals with positioned glyphs; if you're using the cairo
>>> toy font backend, I don't think it provides any guarantees about
>>> support for RTL or bidi text.  Are you using pango?
>>>
>>>     - Vlad
>>>
>>> On Oct 27, 2008, at 5:49 AM, Ben Schmidt wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> The Quartz backend, presumably because of bidirectional support in
>>>> Quartz which
>>>> doesn't behave as Cairo expects, renders right-to-left and
>>>> bidirectional text
>>>> differently to other Cairo backends. Since Cairo output should be
>>>> independent of
>>>> the backend, this is of course a bug.
>>>>
>>>> I noticed it using a GTK+2 GUI version of Vim which I use for
>>>> reading and writing
>>>> Hebrew text. When the Cairo Quartz support was enabled, the output
>>>> went wrong! I
>>>> requested a +no_quartz variant to the MacPorts Cairo installation
>>>> and attached
>>>> screen shots and a text file to demonstrate the bug here:
>>>>
>>>> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/16778
>>>>
>>>> It would be good if this could be added to your bug tracker and CC
>>>> me regarding
>>>> changes/progress. Or if this is a known bug, if you could CC me on
>>>> that, it'd be
>>>> great. I did a quick search of the bug database and couldn't spot it
>>>> there
>>>> already, though. I don't intend to stay subscribed to this list for
>>>> more than a
>>>> few days to field replies to this report.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks very much.
>>>>
>>>> Ben.
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