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Harfbuzz began its life as text shaping code within the FreeType
project, (and you will see references to the FreeType authors
within the source code copyright declarations) but was then
abstracted out to its own project. This project is maintained by
Behdad Esfahbod, and named Harfbuzz. Originally, it was a shaping
engine for OpenType fonts - "Harfbuzz" is the Persian
for "open type".
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