Roozbeh, This is great news! Thanks for your efforts in integrating Noto and Harfbuzz in Android and @unicode too :-)
Is there a link to a blog post or release notes listing the improved language support? Best, Alolita On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Roozbeh Pournader <rooz...@unicode.org> wrote: > Android 5.1 > <http://officialandroid.blogspot.com/2015/03/android-51-unwrapping-new-lollipop.html>, > 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 <https://code.google.com/p/noto/> and HarfBuzz > <http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/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 <http://www.android.com/one/> phones and > most Nexus <http://www.google.com/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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Unicode mailing list > Unicode@unicode.org > http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode > >
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