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Re: I ran across this entertaining video on why English should start using more accents
FWIW, I tend to pronounce them as the French — /brɛv/ and /grɑːv/ — since I first became acquainted with these accent marks in a college French class. (But I don’t call an acute “aigu”. 😉)2 -
Re: The I ogonek in sans-serif monospaced typefaces
If your target is limited only to those that happen to use the į (primarily languages in the Na-Dene and Athabaskan families), then the list of additional glyphs is not terribly daunting or complex. …4 -
Re: Devanagari Fonts for Learning Reference
You might want to investigate Tiro Typeworks’ Indigo project: https://github.com/TiroTypeworks/IndigoThis provides not only the fonts but also the sources for a whole series of open-source Indic font…2 -
Re: notdef in Oculi text font makes it a bad choice
For the record, Denis’s post also included instances of uniAB55–AB59 and AB4E in the last paragraph. Which is another reason that the “hex box” solution is really useful in this forum, rather than ba…1 -
Re: What could be an effective strategy for handling frac/tions in OpenType fonts?
That would indeed be a more robust and agnostic approach. Ideally, I’d personally prefer to see explicitly encoded text. As Nick says, all of the cookbook fractions have Unicode codepoints. But all …1
