The libotf library provides the following facilities:
- read open type layout tables from otf file. currently these
tables are supported; head, name, cmap, gdef, gsub, and gpos.
- convert a unicode character sequence to a glyph code sequence by
using the above tables.
the combination of libotf and the freetype library (ver.2) realizes ctl (complex text layout) by opentype fonts.

this package contains unstripped shared libraries. it is provided primarily to provide a backtrace with names in a debugger, this makes it somewhat easier to interpret core dumps. the libraries are installed in /usr/lib/debug and can be used by placing that directory in ld_library_path. most people will not need this package.