> On 15 Aug 2022, at 23:22, Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote: > >>> On my system (Ubuntu), your amharic characters are encoded in the >>> Ethiopan pane (U+1200-U+137C) and they are displayed with the >>> FreeSerif Font >> >> This works. > > Maybe your Mac OS Amharic font is using Apple-specific SFNT tables > (not covered by the OpenType standard) that are not understood and/or > supported by Pango...
It is a TrueType Collection, containing two fonts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueType#TrueType_Collection I get: % file /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Kefa.ttc /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Kefa.ttc: TrueType font collection data, 2.0, 2 fonts, at 0x20 TrueType Font data, 17 tables, 1st "GDEF" % file /Library/Fonts/FreeSans.ttf /Library/Fonts/FreeSans.ttf: TrueType Font data, 19 tables, 1st "FFTM", name offset 0x15e75c