[frankohn]

You are right here for the unicode part.

In term of quality of the text rendering I think we managed to be pretty good without introducing too much complexity or dependency, just the Freetype library. We chose a very specific approach where we completely bypass the OS API for font rendering and we render ourselves the text using the freetype library.

Otherwise, for the unicode part we are on the choice done by rxi. We support unicode but not every possible characters and we don't have, notably, support for Asian languages but we support russian, greek and some more unicode characters.

For the moment we choose not go for the harfbuzz library so we don't have support complex text layouts and we don't support ligatures. The problem is that harfbuzz bring quite a lot of dependencies and complexity.

In other term rxi chose a nice compromise to have most of the features needed by a coding editor with unicode support without bringing the huge complexity of having to support every possible language or text rendering features. With Lite XL we didn't deviate from this approach.

[khaled]

FWIW, libharfbuzz has no hard dependencies at all and it is fully functional when built with all optional dependencies disabled.

[romwell]

Are you the developer? Awesome!

Could you explain what the differences between Lite and Lite XL are? At a glance, they look about the same.