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Good pick, but I also see the value in preservation — maybe 500 years from now, the Noto fonts will be the best or only representation of many dead or forgotten
by grrowl 12y ago
Good pick, but I also see the value in preservation — maybe 500 years from now, the Noto fonts will be the best or only representation of many dead or forgotten scripts and languages.
- ubernostrum 12y agoAlthough they are non-prescriptive, the Unicode Osmanya table: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U10480.pdf http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U10480.pdf already contains reference glyphs. If you want to preserve scripts, preserve Unicode tables instead of making fonts.
- bcoates 12y agoThere are many more glyphs than there are codepoints -- a font contains a ton of information that would be needed to reproduce a script that is not present in unicode tables.
- acdha 12y agoThis is particularly true for non-European languages – ligatures are a minor feature for most of the languages using latin-1 but there are quite a few which depend on complex, multi-letter combinations which are required for text to be comprehensible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_text_layout http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_text_layout