You have been subscribed to a public bug: Many characters used in African languages orthographies a currently missing from the Ubuntu font family. Some are actually present in uppercase, for example Ɛ U+0190 is present but ɛ U+025B is missing. Combining diacritics (U+0300, etc. and U+1DC4...1DC7) are also needed as many African languages use them.
For the combining diacritics, OpenType GPOS features need to be added for correct positioning. Examples: ɛ U+025B and ɔ U+0254 are used in the official alphabets of Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Tchad, and Cameroon, as well as other alphabets. U+300 is used in the Pan-Nigerian alphabet (in Yoruba ẹ́ is used), or in any language using accented characters not in Unicode as precomposed form. The ANLoc (African localisation) project has a list of characters uses in orthographies of African languages : http://anloc-fonts.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=anloc-fonts/anloc-fonts;a=blob_plain;f=data/charlist.txt;hb=HEAD and a list of accented characters (not available as precomposed characters, i.e. using combining diacritics) http://anloc-fonts.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=anloc-fonts/anloc-fonts;a=blob_plain;f=data/comblist.txt;hb=HEAD ** Affects: fonts-ubuntu (Ubuntu) Importance: Wishlist Status: Incomplete ** Tags: uff-diacritical uff-ipa uff-latin -- Expansion: IPA and Combining Diacritcals to cover more Latin-based African languages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/670758 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
