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by joezydeco 1543 days ago
First thing that comes to mind (as a GUI developer that is currently translating a product) is that the text renderer can't handle accents above and below Latin characters. (e.g. Let's buy crème fraîche in Curaçao) I'd also be surprised if it can handle right-to-left strings as well.
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wffurr 1543 days ago
Flutter uses Skia for text rendering and layout; the same rendering engine used by Chrome, Android, and others. I'm beyond confident it can handle all of those situations.

Flutter demos have a localization dropdown for selecting different locales, of which the gallery demo at least supports many, well beyond FIGS: https://gallery.flutter.dev/#/

Note those demos have other problems that make me crazy, like the copious overuse of non-selectable text. Why the default "Text" widget is non-selectable is a total mystery to me: https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/widgets/Text-class.html You have to instead use the "SelectableText" widget: https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/SelectableText-clas...

I have plenty of complaints about Flutter, but accessibility and localization aren't among them.

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jhgb 1543 days ago
Except Skia is not a text renderer. Skia won't correctly position glyphs for you. It can only render glyphs for you at positions that you provide.
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wffurr 1543 days ago
Your understanding of Skia may be out of date.

See SkParagraph: https://skia.googlesource.com/skia/+/refs/heads/main/modules...

And the experimental SkText API: https://skia.googlesource.com/skia/+/refs/heads/main/experim...

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jhgb 1543 days ago
It's possible; I haven't looked at Skia for some time. As far as I can tell, in the past, https://skia.org/docs/user/tips/#does-skia-shape-text-kernin... applied.
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