Missing Latin Extended for African languages

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The package of IBM’s typeface, IBM Plex.

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Missing Latin Extended for African languages #443

Open boydkelly opened 2 years ago

boydkelly commented 2 years ago

Would be essential for IBM to support the tens of millions African users who need extended-a, extended-b, extended-c in order to use thier languages on the web and other apps.

For example Jula/Bambara is spoken by some 30 million in West Africa. It needs just the following (missing from plex):

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

Google web fonts for mande languages

BoldMonday commented 2 years ago

This makes sense for a future extension of the character sets.

mjabbink commented 2 years ago

Plex does include:

ŋ>"014B Ŋ>"014A

but will add the other missing glyphs in near future release.

boydkelly commented 2 years ago

Awesome! Thank you! Hope this can be added to help 30 million West Africans! https://coastsystems.net/en/blog/2020-08-26-fontlist/