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Some missing latin extened characters. #11

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boydkelly opened this issue Feb 22, 2022 · 5 comments
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Some missing latin extened characters. #11

boydkelly opened this issue Feb 22, 2022 · 5 comments

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@boydkelly
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boydkelly commented Feb 22, 2022

Hi,
In West Africa here we are always looking for some more interesting fonts usable in the local languages. I maintain a small list of fonts that are suitable for the Mande language group.

https://coastsystems.net/blog/en/blog/2020-08-26-fontlist/

Your font is partly there but missing a couple of glyphs. What we need are:

Glyph IPA Unicode
ɔ "0254
Ɔ "0186
ɛ "025B
Ɛ "0190
ɲ "0272
Ɲ "019D
ŋ "014B
Ŋ "014A

You already have 2 out of 4!!
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Space+Mono?preview.text=M%C9%94g%C9%94k%C9%94r%C9%94w%20ka%C9%B2i%20ka%20k%C9%9B%20ni%20%C5%8Bania%20%C9%B2uman%20ye&preview.text_type=custom

If one day we could get space mono it would benefit some 30 million people that have only about 40 fonts at the present time.

Thanks!

@inferno986return
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I would add that I would like to see the Esperanto letters which are also part of the Latin Extended block in Unicode:

  • U+0108 Ĉ Latin Capital letter C with circumflex
  • U+0109 ĉ Latin Small letter C with circumflex
  • U+011C Ĝ Latin Capital letter G with circumflex
  • U+011D ĝ Latin Small letter G with circumflex
  • U+0124 Ĥ Latin Capital letter H with circumflex
  • U+0125 ĥ Latin Small letter H with circumflex
  • U+0134 Ĵ Latin Capital letter J with circumflex
  • U+0135 ĵ Latin Small letter J with circumflex
  • U+015C Ŝ Latin Capital letter S with circumflex
  • U+015D ŝ Latin Small letter S with circumflex
  • U+016C Ŭ Latin Capital letter U with breve
  • U+016D ŭ Latin Small letter U with breve

@hpapazian
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hpapazian commented May 17, 2023

It... never... ends... :-/

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@inferno986return
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@hpapazian I've never seen C with a tilde before. What language is that plaque in?

I am confident it's not even part of the Unicode standard or even the MUFI standard.

@hpapazian
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hpapazian commented May 18, 2023

I took that photo in Budapest (in 2019). I suspect the C-tilde is a variant form of Ç, adopted possibly because it's easier to compose. I don't know how widespread it is. But not being in Unicode only makes things more complicated...

@inferno986return
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It could be theoretically added to Unicode but they would need more evidence of its usage. I'd start with MUFI if it has historic usage. 🤔

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