Christian Persch wrote: > Hi; > > the new strings would be these unicode script and block names: > > >> +msgid "Sundanese" >> +msgid "Lepcha" >> +msgid "Ol Chiki" >> +msgid "Cyrillic Extended-A" >> +msgid "Vai" >> +msgid "Cyrillic Extended-B" >> +msgid "Saurashtra" >> +msgid "Kayah Li" >> +msgid "Rejang" >> +msgid "Cham" >> +msgid "Ancient Symbols" >> +msgid "Phaistos Disc" >> +msgid "Lycian" >> +msgid "Carian" >> +msgid "Lydian" >> +msgid "Mahjong Tiles" >> +msgid "Domino Tiles" >> Thanks. I'ld like to add here some q n a.
Q. What's the effect if these scripts are included but happen to remain untranslated in many of the languages? A. When the user starts up Character Map, she is likely to see these script names in the Script list. This is due to sorting, english letters appear on top of other scripts such as Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, etc. From the above list, it's going to be about a dozen entries. Q. What's the effect if these scripts are not included in gucharmap? A. If the user installs any of the updated fonts, she will not be able to view any of the new characters. This would be a defect, for about 60% of the users (using en_US locale, source: smolt) Q. Anyway, are there fonts available for these new Unicode scripts? A. For the Ancient Greek-era scripts, there are http://*greek**fonts*.teilar.gr/ Covers five of the new Unicode blocks. At the same place, there are fonts for things like Mahjong and Domino tiles, at least seven blocks in total. These fonts have not been packaged yet, so a user would need to install by hand. DejaVu will release a new scheduled version with some of the new characters (for example, characters in the Basic Greek block). I suspect there are other fonts in preparation. Personally, I would like the new scripts be included, even considering the fact they will eventually remain untranslated for some languages, in GNOME 2.22.1. My reason is the issue of correctness, to be able to view characters for these new fonts. Simos _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
