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Nice work I would like microns on the vowles, as we type a lot of Māori words....

• Daub 2y ago
  Same here for diacritics in Vietnamese. There are very few font sets which natively support our vast range of diacritics.
  • chevyray 2y ago
    Out of curiosity, what would you say is the most accurate/comprehensive resource for learning about these?
    • Daub 2y ago
      This one is the go-to site for VN designers: https://vietnamesetypography.com/ https://vietnamesetypography.com/
• chevyray 2y ago
  Is a micron the name of the straight line over the 'a' in Māori? A single pixel line over a bunch of a's is tremendously simple to do in pixel fonts, I could probably add that to all the fonts in a day... hmmmm
  • travisjungroth 2y ago
    The straight bars over vowels are called “macrons” in English. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macron_(diacritic) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macron_(diacritic) In Māori, there are ā, ē, ī, ō and ū.
    • chevyray 2y ago
      Ahh yes there it is, thanks for clarifying. These are quite simple and would be easy to support.
      • bspammer 2y ago
        Apologies if this nerd-snipes you, but supporting the caron might also be fairly simple given you could just vertically flip the circumflex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caron Together with the macron, pinyin (the main romanization for Chinese) would be mostly supported. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin
        • chevyray 2y ago
          Great suggestion, I would not have discovered this easily. thanks!