[Development] Does latest Qt (5.2) support/plan to support font sanitizer

Konstantin Ritt ritt.ks at gmail.com
Tue Oct 22 20:29:02 CEST 2013


HarfBuzz-NG supports OT font sanitizing. Since Qt 5.2, there is an
experimental HB-NG shaper backend (turned off by default).

Regards,
Konstantin


2013/10/22 GD dev <gaurav.k.developer at gmail.com>

> Hi there,
>
> I was wondering if latest Qt (5.2) has/plans to have font sanitizer,
> something like OpenType font sanitizer in Chromium (
> https://code.google.com/p/ots/wiki/DesignDoc), without which random user
> fonts could leave embedded system (running Qt) open to security attacks.
>
> Regards,
> Gaurav Kamboj
>
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