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Mercury13 / unicodia

Encyclopedia of Unicode characters
https://mercury13.github.io/unicodia/
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Add tulu block #398

Open nataliakeniganti opened 2 hours ago

Mercury13 commented 1 hour ago

If it were easy… I tried to talk to author of MODERN Tulu font, but he did not respond. Here’s a block of ANCIENT Tulu, and there’s a consensus to not unify ancient and modern. The sample font for ANCIENT Tulu is commercial, made by the owner of a digital foundry. Even a gag of 80 glyphs is >week of work. Well, I did gags for Nandinagari and Dives until true working fonts came. WORKING Tulu is ≈200…300 glyphs. (Working Gurung w/o Windows’ rules is >100 glyphs too, but most of those glyphs are auto-created.)

Mercury13 commented 1 hour ago

I’m too lazy to give to Noto my Gurung and Ol Onal; Todhri HAS been given.

Mercury13 commented 1 hour ago

Just look at two blocks of tofu. A really big Indic script, and 4000 Egyptian hieros. Understand why they are tofu?

nataliakeniganti commented 1 hour ago

Support the unicode characters

𑎀 𑎁 𑎂
𑎃 𑎄 𑎅 𑎆 𑎇 𑎈 𑎉

nataliakeniganti commented 1 hour ago

Update Fonts/NotoSansEgyptianHieroglyphs-Regular.otf.

Mercury13 commented 1 hour ago

Do I need to support four characters 11392+113D0+113A1+113B9? 11392 Tulu-Tigalari letter Ka 113D0 Tulu-Tigalari conjoiner 113A1 Tulu-Tigalari letter Ta 113B9 Tulu-Tigalari vowel sign I Together they are a common syllable KTI. That’s a working font for Indic script. Noto Devanagari contains ONE THOUSAND glyphs and >200 rules. Tulu won’t be that big (most Deva’s characters are metric substitutes — wide I, wider I, really wide I), but still Indic scripts are HARD. I can make a gag, and I did this for Diak/Nand until real fonts came, but too weak for a working font. The luck of Gukh was absence of those syllables, and the only thing I needed was to emulate reordering rules (IDK whether they are present now) and hang anusvara.

Mercury13 commented 1 hour ago

A bad feature of OpenType: it relies on system’s reordering rules.

nataliakeniganti commented 1 hour ago

A bad feature of OpenType: it relies on system’s reordering rules.

Use fontforge

Mercury13 commented 1 hour ago

For Tulu it probably won’t be that hard, but we have what we have, as said one of our politicians (Kravchuk?)

Mercury13 commented 1 hour ago

Do you need a gag (a set of glyphs that gags those tofu) or a working font? As we say in Odesa, that’s two big differences.

Mercury13 commented 1 hour ago

About OpenType: As you see, Makasar has one table of two rules, just dot doubling. image Vowel E is just a spacing glyph, won’t show. But everything works somehow! image Who puts E before consonant? Tables present in OpenType engines! More, you don’t need to draw anything in 11938 Diak O, those tables will automatically make it from 11935 and 11930! And gracefully put 11935 before. Those rules for Gukh were absent when I tested for the last time, and in Noto Lanna they are emulated too.

nataliakeniganti commented 41 minutes ago

Add Missing Funky Glyphs 4000 Egyptian hieros!!!