USEFUL_LINKS.md

Useful Links

D3D11

• Minimal D3D11 setup

Chromium

• Skia tab drawing code

• GTK dlopen() example

• Chromium code coverage BUILD.gn

• UTF-8 encoder/decoder

• UTF summary

Unicode test data

• ICU UDHR .txt files
• COSMIC Text .txt files

Text rendering

1. Playing with UTF-8 in C++
2. C++20 with u8, char8_t and std::string
3. Character Encoding in C++
4. UTF-8 everywhere: How to do text on Windows

Unordered

• Chromium //base/threading/
• Text Rendering Hates You
• Laying Out Text With Core Text
• Modern text rendering with Linux: Overview
• Text layout is a loose hierarchy of segmentation
• Grapheme Clusters and Terminal Emulators
• Xi Editor backspace.rs
• Meaning of top, ascent, baseline, descent, bottom, and leading in Android's FontMetrics
• Modern text rendering with Linux: Part 1
• Harfbuzz: Core Text integration
• Android's Font Renderer
• Improving the Font Pipeline
• Adventures in Text Rendering: Kerning and Glyph Atlases
• Complex text layout
• FreeType glyph metrics SVG

Linux

• Wayland Explorer

C++

• Comparisons in C++20
• Writing a custom iterator in modern C++
• Effortless Performance Improvements in C++: std::string_view
  • Reddit discussion

Objective-C

• Delegates:
  • Why use weak pointer for delegation?
  • How to pass data from one MVC to another using Objective-C protocols
• NSString and Unicode

macOS

• Apple Sample Code
• Text System Defaults and Key Bindings
• NSTrackingArea
• NSTextInputClient
  • How to check the status of input method in NSTextInputClient?

OpenGL

• Async glTexSubImage2D and OGL thread blocking