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For Braille script (Brai), add font Noto Sans Symbols 2 #14

Open imnasnainaec opened 4 months ago

imnasnainaec commented 4 months ago

Per https://fonts.google.com/noto/use#how-are-noto-fonts-organized, penultimate paragraph in "Noto families":

Use [...] Noto Sans Symbols 2 for Braille letters, dingbats, arrows, and chess symbols.

DavidLRowe commented 4 months ago

@LornaSIL wrote (#13): "As far as Braille goes there is also the Catrinity font which has Braille and it is under the OFL." Would this font be preferable to Noto Sans Symbols 2? Is there room for both in the table?

imnasnainaec commented 4 months ago

Here's the whole block:

Noto Sans Symbols 2 support: Screenshot 2024-04-30 145310

Catrinity's support from their Overview (all visible characters without further information, PDF): Screenshot 2024-04-30 144552

imnasnainaec commented 4 months ago

I could add Catrinity in the "Other" column, but it seems unlikely to me that the default font should include the open dots (and possibly not have different 6- and 8- dot glyphs).

imnasnainaec commented 4 months ago

@LornaSIL Do you think Catrinity should be added here and to https://github.com/silnrsi/fonts/blob/main/families.json?

LornaSIL commented 4 months ago

They both have the same character set (for the Braille block). As you say, it's odd to have the open cells, so just stick with the Noto font.

DavidLRowe commented 4 months ago

@mhosken This PR is ready to merge, but I know you're doing some debugging and I don't want to trigger another build until you're ready. Feel free to merge this whenever it's convenient for you (or let me know and I'll do it).

DavidLRowe commented 4 months ago

@imnasnainaec Thanks for this contribution!