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monocasa on March 24, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Windows code-execution zeroday is under active exp...

It's the hinting that's normally referred to here as Turing complete, I think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueType#Hinting_language

monadic2 on March 24, 2020 [–]

I know Mac OS X has ignored a lot of the hinting in fonts. Do they evaluate the entire script regardless?

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