[tex-live] Duplicate Thai patterns reported by XeTeX in TL 2015 pretest

[Khaled Hosny]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 12:56:05PM +0200, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> 2015-04-14 12:24 GMT+02:00 Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com>:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 11:51 AM, jfbu wrote:
> > >
> > > Yesterday April 13
> > > I compiled all binaries from tldevsrc source repository and there
> > > was no problem with generating formats for xelatex and xetex
> > >
> > > Today I got the binaries from tlpretest mirror, and got the problem
> > >   -rwx------    1 ???  staff  22651628 Apr 13 14:47 xetex
> > >
> > > I tried just now to update my tldevsrc and I recompiled all binaries,
> > > on my machine (Mac OS X mavericks) and
> > > now, contrarily to yesterday, xetex has the identical
> > > problem as the one from today's tlpretest
> >
> > It might be worth noting that Peter imported the latest version of ICU
> > two days ago.
> >
> 
> Is XeTeX going to switch back from HarfBuzz to ICU?

XeTeX switched from ICU “Layout Engine” to HarfBuzz, there is much more
of ICU than the layout engine (which is, incidentally, being removed
from ICU) and XeTeX still use parts of it.

Regards,
Khaled