[Localization] Which Non-Latin Scripts Do Free Software Fonts Not Cover?

Jim Gettys jg at laptop.org
Tue Oct 30 13:05:34 EDT 2007


On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 23:50 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote:

> The languages most likely to be needed for the XO-1 in its first year
> are English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya,
> Kinyarwanda, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Cambodian, and Thai. I suggest that
> you look at Ethiopic script for languages other than Amharic, and
> Hausa written in Arabic script. 

Actually, you are missing a bunch of languages.  Urdu, Quechua, Aymara
as a few examples....
                           - Jim

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