From 56697455671cbc52caefe6dd75d48f796992987c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexei Podtelezhnikov <apodtele@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 22:50:02 -0400
Subject: gsoc.html: Mention WOFF2 support.

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 gsoc.html | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)

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diff --git a/gsoc.html b/gsoc.html
index 5fc6454..b79e33b 100644
--- a/gsoc.html
+++ b/gsoc.html
@@ -113,6 +113,35 @@
             </dd>
           </dl>
 
+          <dl>
+            <dt>Add support for the <code>WOFF2</code> fonts
+            <dd>
+              <p>FreeType currently supports WOFF 1.0 fonts,
+              which are zlib-compressed SFNT fonts. The support for
+              <a href=https://www.w3.org/TR/WOFF2/>WOFF 2.0</a>
+              with improved Brotli compression is lacking. This project would
+              likely involve the following.
+
+              <ul>
+                <li>Study the specification how SFNT fonts are wrapped
+                into WOFF2 files.</li>
+
+                <li>Explore if it is possible to borrow
+                <a href=https://github.com/google/woff2>some code</a>
+                donated by Google.</li>
+
+                <li>Integrate seemless WOFF2 support into FreeType so that
+                these fonts can be recognized, decompressed, and opened as
+                any other SFNT font, without any changes to API.
+              </ul>
+
+              <p><em>Difficulty:</em> medium to
+                high.  <em>Requirements:</em> C, Unix build
+                tools.  <em>Potential mentors:</em> Werner Lemberg,
+                Alexei Podtelezhnikov, Toshiya Suzuki (FreeType).</p>
+            </dd>
+          </dl>
+
           <dl>
             <dt>Add support for the &lsquo;<code>SVG </code>&rsquo;
               OpenType table to render color fonts</dt>
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