This document is for HarfBuzz 13.2.1 . The latest version of this documentation can be found on-line at https://harfbuzz.github.io.

HarfBuzz is a text shaping library. Using the HarfBuzz library allows programs to convert a sequence of Unicode input into properly formatted and positioned glyph output—for any writing system and language.

The canonical source-code tree is available at github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz. See Downloading HarfBuzz for release tarballs.