Re: Android 5.1 ships with support for several minority scripts

Comment on Cham was informational. What is in unicode charts was based on
Eastern Cham only.

Proposals to add Cham and Arabic characters to needed to support Western
Cham are underdevelopment.

Testing on Thai Tham will occur ... I was curious as to what the original
design parameters forvthe font was. It is easier to evaluate a fonts
language support knowing what was originally indended.

For instance I do not assume that the myanmar font was designed to support
all languages that use the myanmar script.

I can also make assumptions about Latin script coverage and languages that
are supported/unsupported.

Andrew

On Sunday, 15 March 2015, Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh_at_unicode.org> wrote:
> Andrew,
> I don't know the answer to your questions unfortunately. You can
investigate the fonts yourself (they are available at
https://code.google.com/p/noto/), or ask for support for Western Cham
(assuming it's already properly encoded at Unicode) at the Noto issue
tracker at https://code.google.com/p/noto/issues/entry.
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Andrew Cunningham <lang.support_at_gmail.com>
wrote:
>>
>> Hi Roozbeh,
>>
>> a point of clarification and a question:
>>
>> * the Cham font is actually an Eastern Cham font supporting Akhar Thrah
the Eastern variety of the script.
>>
>> Akhar Srak . Western Cham script remains unsupported.
>>
>> Which languages was the Thai Tham font designed to support? And which
variety of the script?
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> On Saturday, 14 March 2015, Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh_at_unicode.org>
wrote:
>> > Android 5.1, released earlier this week, has added support for 25
minority scripts. The wide coverage can be reproduced by almost everybody
for free, thanks to the Noto and HarfBuzz projects, both of which are open
source. (Android itself is open source too.)
>> > By my count, these are the new scripts added in Android 5.1: Balinese,
Batak, Buginese, Buhid, Cham, Coptic, Glagolitic, Hanunnoo, Javanese, Kayah
Li, Lepcha, Limbu, Meetei Mayek, Ol Chiki, Oriya, Rejang, Saurashtra,
Sundanese, Syloti Nagri, Tagbanwa, Tai Le, Tai Tham, Tai Viet, Thaana, and
Tifinagh.
>> > (Android 5.0, released last year, had already added the Georgian lari,
complete Unicode 7.0 coverage for Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic, and seven new
scripts: Braille, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, Cherokee, Gujarati,
Gurmukhi, Sinhala, and Yi.)
>> > Note that different Android vendors and carriers may choose to ship
more fonts or less, but Android One phones and most Nexus devices will
support all the above scripts out of the box.
>> >
>> > None of this would have been possible without the efforts of Unicode
volunteers who worked hard to encode the scripts in Unicode. Thanks to the
efforts of Unicode, Noto, and HarfBuzz, thousands of communities around the
world would can now read and write their language on smartphones and
tablets for the first time.
>> >
>>
>> --
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>> (Social and Digital Inclusion)
>> Public Libraries and Community Engagement
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>>
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>>
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>>
>
>

-- 
Andrew Cunningham
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(Social and Digital Inclusion)
Public Libraries and Community Engagement
State Library of Victoria
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Australia
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