[python] Use utf-32 / utf-16 based on build of Python

Fixes https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/pull/271

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/sample.py b/src/sample.py
index 19a4fdcb..c2cb94d5 100755
--- a/src/sample.py
+++ b/src/sample.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 from __future__ import print_function
 import sys
+import array
 from gi.repository import HarfBuzz as hb
 from gi.repository import GLib
 
@@ -39,7 +40,26 @@ class Debugger(object):
 		return True
 debugger = Debugger()
 hb.buffer_set_message_func (buf, debugger.message, 1, 0)
-hb.buffer_add_utf8 (buf, text.encode('utf-8'), 0, -1)
+
+##
+## Add text to buffer
+##
+#
+# See https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/pull/271
+#
+if False:
+	# If you do not care about cluster values reflecting Python
+	# string indices, then this is quickest way to add text to
+	# buffer:
+	hb.buffer_add_utf8 (buf, text.encode('utf-8'), 0, -1)
+	# Otherwise, then following handles both narrow and wide
+	# Python builds:
+elif sys.maxunicode == 0x10FFFF:
+	hb.buffer_add_utf32 (buf, array.array('I', text.encode('utf-32')), 0, -1)
+else:
+	hb.buffer_add_utf16 (buf, array.array('H', text.encode('utf-16')), 0, -1)
+
+
 hb.buffer_guess_segment_properties (buf)
 
 hb.shape (font, buf, [])