Fw: [geofonts:22] Re: Georgian range for "DejaVuSans" by BPG-InfoTech

[BPG Kolumbus]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Laenen" <benl...@gmail.com>
To: "BPG Kolumbus" <gougouchvil...@kolumbus.fi>
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 20:46
Subject: Re: [geofonts:22] Re: Georgian range for "DejaVuSans" by
BPG-InfoTech

>
> Hi BPG,
>
> I think you have to resend this email to the GeoFonts mailing list,
> because I think that I'm the only one who received this message :-)
>
> Greetings
> Ben
>
>
> On Saturday 16 June 2007, you wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > To finish discussion about "Mkhedruli Mtavruli" here is Georgian
> > "Asomtavruli" for DejaVu based on "BPG Nino" - normal and bold.
> >
> > If it fits DejaVu it can be used...
> >
> > BPG
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ben Laenen" <benl...@gmail.com>
> > To: "BPG Kolumbus" <gougouchvil...@kolumbus.fi>
> > Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 18:20
> > Subject: Re: [geofonts:22] Re: Georgian range for "DejaVuSans" by
> > BPG-InfoTech
> >
> > > Hi again,
> > >
> > > I understood you were joking when I replied, don't worry :-)
> > >
> > > but something should be done about the issue anyway. So please try
> > > to find Georgian people that agree with the current bad state of
> > > Georgian Unicode.
> > >
> > > The email address of Michael Everson is eve...@evertype.com in
> > > case you want to contact him, he's very helpful and knows a lot,
> > > and one of the most important people involved in Unicode as well.
> > > The other option would be asking on the Unicode mailing list.
> > >
> > > But one thing will stay very difficult in the process: convincing
> > > them it's not a style variant like smallcaps in Latin. I've not
> > > studied it in detail, but so far it always looked like a style
> > > variant...
> > >
> > > btw, putting Mtavruli in DejaVu isn't a question, it will certainly
> > > be put in, it's just a question how it would be put in and what
> > > code points it would use. If we don't use the Asomtavruli slots, it
> > > just won't be easy to reach Mtavruli in the font and you need
> > > editors and document viewers that can do it. And to my knowledge
> > > there's almost nothing in the Free Software world capable to do it
> > > (Scribus is almost there, the developer of the Scribus text engine
> > > is making it possible now, and maybe LaTeX can do it).
> > >
> > > So in case Unicode cannot be convinced, start convincing the text
> > > rendering software writers :-) If I can get to the next TextLayout
> > > meeting I'll ask the people there how far they are. Work is getting
> > > done in the text rendering backends at the moment, so it may not be
> > > too far away.
> > >
> > > Greetings
> > > Ben
> > >
> > > On Saturday 16 June 2007, BPG Kolumbus wrote:
> > > > Hi Ben
> > > >
> > > > I was just joking :)
> > > >
> > > > Nothing serious...
> > > >
> > > > In DejaVu is to be added only "Mkhedruli".
> > > >
> > > > I do not demand to include "Matvruli" into DejaVu - I was
> > > > joking...
> > > >
> > > > BPG
>
>
>
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