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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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. > > > > -- > Andrew Cunningham > Project Manager, Research and Development > (Social and Digital Inclusion) > Public Libraries and Community Engagement > State Library of Victoria > 328 Swanston Street > Melbourne VIC 3000 > Australia > > Ph: +61-3-8664-7430 > Mobile: 0459 806 589 > Email: [email protected] > [email protected] > > http://www.openroad.net.au/ > http://www.mylanguage.gov.au/ > http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/ > >
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