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Noto Old Italic
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Noto Sans Old Italic should support Old Italic variant forms #1

Open roozbehp opened 9 years ago

roozbehp commented 9 years ago

The situation with Old Italic in Unicode is very similar to the situation with CJK in Unicode. Characters are heavily unified, which could appear very different in the actual languages they are written in.

So the Noto Old Italic font needs to have 'locl' features mapping them to different glyphs. The shapes are documented in UTN notofonts/noto-fonts#40.

brawer commented 9 years ago

The following languages from UTN #40, page 2 already have an identifier in ISO 639-3 and BCP47. To support them in OpenType, they will need to be added to the registry of OpenType Language Tags but this should be straightforward. Once that registration is complete, one can start working on the fonts.

The following three are mentioned in UTN 40 but do not seem to have a language tag yet in ISO 639-3 (apart from ett for Etruscan); these will need to be registered first. The registration deadline for the upcoming round of changes is August 31, 2015.

marekjez86 commented 9 years ago

fontguy@: should we request registration of Marsiliana, Archaic Etruscan and Neo-Etruscan in ISO 639-3 (The registration deadline for the upcoming round of changes is August 31, 2015.)?

brawer commented 9 years ago

Just heard from Microsoft that the following OpenType language system tags will be added to the registry; these are the languages of UTN notofonts/noto-fonts#40 which already had identifiers in BCP47/ISO 639-3:

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brawer commented 9 years ago

According to Debbie Anderson (dwanders@sonic.net) from UBerkeley, the information in UTN40 is not entirely complete/correct. Debbie has asked a group scholars to supply more accurate information on what glyph should be used for what language. I’d suggest that we wait with fixing the Noto font until we have heard back from Debbie.

TidharC commented 7 years ago

Any updates on this issue? Looks like:

http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn40/old-italic-glyph-variation.pdf

was last updated on 2015-08-06

c933103 commented 4 years ago

What's the current situation?

marekjez86 commented 4 years ago

not done yet