From: Michael E. <ev...@ev...> - 2013-11-09 16:33:05
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On 8 Nov 2013, at 23:41, Denis Jacquerye <mo...@gm...> wrote: > Disunifying can be necessary, but here disunifying N-form and n-form > eng would be nonsense, I think. > This is typographical variation and nothing more, each culture can > have its typographical variant but at the same time some cultures are > comfortable having several variants. How do you differentiate what is > shared from what is preferred? It’s not mere “typographical variation” because the Sami for instance claim that the n-form capital Eng is WRONG, and evidently some at least some African users claim that the N-form capital Eng is WRONG. > For example the N-form is more common in Niger while the n-form is > more common in Mali (and other Western African countries) even in the > same language. People are aware of the variation and can chose fonts > that provide what they prefer. They can’t because this stuff is served up by system fonts in Mac OS, Linux, Windows… > Disunifying in this case would create more problems than what we are > trying to solve. I doubt that. > Some fonts are just not tuned to the users preference that is when > font selection is handy. People saying “That’s not my letter, it’s WRONG” is not just a preference. I don’t think language tags is much of an answer. Frankly if nobody is brave enough to take the pain of disunifying, why don’t the round-eng people just switch to the existing characters U+0220 Ƞ and U+019E ƞ (N WITH LONG RIGHT LEG)? > Applications need to be OpenType aware to allow fonts to provide > preferred glyphs. Try that in a file system, or in one field but not another field in a FileMaker database. > Unfortunately Djambarrpuyŋu does not have an OpenType language tag at > the moment. > Changing the default glyph for Ŋ U+014A in DejaVu Sans at this stage > might indeed break many users expectation. For my purposes I just don’t use fonts that have the n-shaped capital Eng. DejaVu Sans isn’t useful. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/ |