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by erk__ 662 days ago
No that is not what is happening, HarfBuzz have a experimental Wasm shaper, so the font embeds some wasm code that tells Harfbuzz what to output.

https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/blob/main/docs/wasm-sha...

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oh ok, so it can't work in any system that doesn't use harfbuzz.. that's much less interesting than what I originally thought