Webpage to check language coverage of a given character set?

Ramiro Espinoza · June 2016

Hi there,

I need to generate a list of the languages supported by the characters sets/encodings I use in my fonts. Can you recommend a webpage or resource that would tell me on exactly which languages are supported by a given glyphs list?

Thanks in advance.

Florian Hardwig · June 2016

Hi Ramiro,
you’d first need to define which characters are needed to support a given language. Underware has built an online validation tool that will give you a report about the covered languages, but their definition is not an established standard, and more inclusive than other definitions.

Christoph Koeberlin · June 2016

Hi Ramiro,
have you tried OTM’s consistency checker?

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Ramiro Espinoza · June 2016

Thanks @Florian Hardwig and
@Christoph Koeberlin. Both resources are very useful.

Florian Hardwig · June 2016

See also this older thread: http://typedrawers.com/discussion/718/determining-language-support

Ramiro Espinoza · June 2016

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Kent Lew · June 2016

but their definition is not an established standard, and more inclusive than other definitions

Hmm. Seems more exclusionary in other ways. For example, I find it curious that Underware’s tool thinks that German and some related languages are not supported if capital ẞ (U+1E9E) is not present. And Dutch is not supported if precomposed íȷ́ (ijacute — unencoded) is not present. (Or not assigned PUA U+E132/E133.)

Ramiro Espinoza · June 2016

I made some test at the Underware's page and I agree with Ken. Considering that a font does not support Dutch just because it has no ijacute, or that does not cover German because it has no capital ẞ it is not accurate. OT Master does a more precise job

Florian Hardwig · June 2016

Seems more exclusionary in other ways.

Oh, we are in agreement: I meant more inclusive in terms of characters, not fonts. Should have used demanding.

Dave Crossland · June 2016

https://github.com/davelab6/pyfontaine does this

Webpage to check language coverage of a given character set?

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