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Hyperglot: a database and tools for detecting language support in fonts
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Requirements for the Hiragana and Katakana fonts are far too strict #168

Open MrBrezina opened 2 months ago

MrBrezina commented 2 months ago

From Andreas Seidel:

Your requirements for the Hiragana and Katakana fonts are far too strict.

Please check this yourself on the pages of highly qualified Japanese font manufacturers such as https://fontplus.jp/. Most Japanese fonts do not have these characters.

These characters are not needed except for academic use.

characters don't needed for common Katakana:

U+30FF U+31F0 U+31F1 U+31F2 U+31F3 U+31F4 U+31F5 U+31F6 U+31F7 + 309A U+31F8 U+31FA U+31FB U+31FC U+31FD U+31FE U+31FF

characters don't needed for common Hiragana:

U+309F

BTW: Large font like SourceHanSans or NotoSansJP freeze Hyperglot (website).

kontur commented 3 weeks ago

@sergiolmartins do you have any input on this? I'm inclined to follow the user reported suggestion; maybe the two digraphs (U+30FF for Katakana and U+309F for Hiragana) could be included in auxiliary, but the small version Katakana seem "orthographically" not needed.