abettermap
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3 years ago Just going to walk myself through some of the thought process on troubleshooting this one:
Is font size to blame?
No. I pasted Molisan into Google Fonts and it just can't hang with that char:
Is it fine in Noto Sans?
Yep:
Are you sure?
Nope:
It's actually falling back to Lucida Grande:
What is this character?
What's the difference between these two?
If I use the latter instead of the former, Noto Sans shows it fine:
Here are the actual chars:
- Yours, from the sheet:
ɑ̀ - Mine, from the font page:
ὰ
Oh, it's a combo
Right? We can't just pull the ol' switcheroo and use the one that works?
Now what?
Continue this after "what is this character?" is answered.
Ideally we don't want to give up Gentium Basic, so it's either:
- Find a different heading font to use across the board
- If checkable by character, set just those ones to
Noto Sansdoesn't actually work, there are system fallbacks that make it look like it's working. So, need another font.
Are there patterns?
Does it occur with a handful of the same chars? If so, we could get away with checking for those characters instead of loading config.
Answer: YES. I narrowed it down to just 5 chars:
ɑ: Cilendɑno
U+0251 : LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA
ɑ̀: Bənəvientɑ̀nə, Marchizɑ̀n, Mulisɑ̀nə
U+0251 : LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA
U+0300 : COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT {Greek varia}
ɛ: Gurenɛ, Kpɛlɛwoo, KʌThemnɛ
U+025B : LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN E {epsilon}
ʋ: Èʋegbe
U+028B : LATIN SMALL LETTER V WITH HOOK
ɔ: Mandɔyí, Mɔjukru, Thuɔŋjäŋ
U+0254 : LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O...which are problematic because those glyphs are not included in any Google Fonts option.
Then there are these, which are only missing from some fonts (e.g. Gentium Basic):
ụ: Asụsụ Igbo
U+1EE5 : LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DOT BELOW
ẽ: Avañe'ẽ
U+1EBD : LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH TILDE
ế: Tiếng Việt
U+1EBF : LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND ACUTESo, conceivably we could find a decent heading font to use instead of Gentium Basic, then we'd be left with just 5 characters to deal with. "Just" 😆
rperlin-ela
Description
14 endonyms that contain IPA characters are displaying awkwardly in Gentium. We want to use Google Noto Sans Regular for those 14 to get a better display. Fonts are listed in the UI_Fonts tab on this sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QfySFNpD2VnLand3-lTNAPAlrm0Cmv9As01LAXgXC0E/edit#gid=2111360179
We want a setup, as we have endonyms, where this list can be maintained and changed by ELA, automatically updating the UI with Noto font instead of Gentium for relevant items.