New Font Missing Some Abkhaz Characters #114725

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Harley Acheson · 2023-11-10T22:56:01+01:00

Harley Acheson commented

2023-11-10 22:56:01 +01:00

System Information
Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.22621-SP0 64 Bits
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.6.0 NVIDIA 537.13

Blender Version
Broken: version: 4.1.0 Alpha, branch: Unknown, commit date: Unknown Unknown, hash: Unknown
Worked: (newest version of Blender that worked as expected)

Short description of error
New Inter Font is missing some characters needed for the the Abkhaz language

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
The current list of languages shows that Abkhaz is missing some characters:

Inter supports the Cyrillic language quite well. It includes Basic Cyrillic alphabet, Cyrillic extensions, Historic letters, Historic miscellaneous, Extended Cyrillic, and Additions for Nivkh.

However it does not include coverage of the "Cyrillic Supplement" block, 48 characters from U+500 to U+52F. This is used for languages that have characters not included in the basic alphabet. Languages such as Komi, Khanty, Mordvin, Kurdish, Aleut, Chuvash, Abkhazian, and Orok.

One of our "Starting" translations is Abkhazian, which uses the Abkhaz alphabet. This requires two letters in this range, CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER PE WITH DESCENDER (U+0524) and CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER PE WITH DESCENDER (U+0525).

This is probably not urgent as this translation is very incomplete.

An instant fix would be to just add the base "Noto Sans" font to the stack. However, there isn't yet a version of this that is variable but we are expecting it this quarter (a variable version of Noto Serif landed last month). If we set out stack to use Noto Sans for TT_UCR_CYRILLIC coverage bit it will use it for all Cyrillic languages and therefore will not be variable just because two characters.

We could also wait for Inter to add these two characters. It is open source and they do welcome submissions but I don't have the experience with this language to submit these characters.

My gut feeling is that we can just wait on this one, at least until Noto Sans Variable lands.

**System Information** Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.22621-SP0 64 Bits Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.6.0 NVIDIA 537.13 **Blender Version** Broken: version: 4.1.0 Alpha, branch: Unknown, commit date: Unknown Unknown, hash: `Unknown` Worked: (newest version of Blender that worked as expected) **Short description of error** New Inter Font is missing some characters needed for the the Abkhaz language **Exact steps for others to reproduce the error** The current list of languages shows that Abkhaz is missing some characters: ![image](/attachments/c2034b95-b2f6-42e9-9d72-619c8c08c7e3) Inter supports the Cyrillic language quite well. It includes Basic Cyrillic alphabet, Cyrillic extensions, Historic letters, Historic miscellaneous, Extended Cyrillic, and Additions for Nivkh. However it does not include coverage of the "Cyrillic Supplement" block, 48 characters from U+500 to U+52F. This is used for languages that have characters not included in the basic alphabet. Languages such as Komi, Khanty, Mordvin, Kurdish, Aleut, Chuvash, Abkhazian, and Orok. One of our "Starting" translations is Abkhazian, which uses the Abkhaz alphabet. This requires two letters in this range, CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER PE WITH DESCENDER (U+0524) and CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER PE WITH DESCENDER (U+0525). This is probably not urgent as this translation is very incomplete. An instant fix would be to just add the base "Noto Sans" font to the stack. However, there isn't yet a version of this that is variable but we are expecting it this quarter (a variable version of Noto Serif landed last month). If we set out stack to use Noto Sans for TT_UCR_CYRILLIC coverage bit it will use it for all Cyrillic languages and therefore will not be variable just because two characters. We could also wait for Inter to add these two characters. It is open source and they do welcome submissions but I don't have the experience with this language to submit these characters. My gut feeling is that we can just wait on this one, at least until Noto Sans Variable lands.

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