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Requesting support for more fonts.

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2A02:8420:508D:CC00:56E6:FCFF:FEDB:2BBA (talkcontribs)

I known it may be the wrong place since most of the target glyph aren't part of any languages, or the languages are dead language. But it make a small issue here.

Nemo bis (talkcontribs)

You can try two things:

  • propose a good free font which includes those glyphs, for inclusion in ULS;
  • check in the Unicode standards if there is some special language code to which such glyphs could be suitably assigned.
2A02:8420:508D:CC00:56E6:FCFF:FEDB:2BBA (talkcontribs)

Ok All Those glyph can be displayed with http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ which are all completely free without any restriction.
is updated regularly as the Unicode Standard evolve.

Again : those glyph aren't part of any live language (like ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs)... and some aren't part of any language at all.

There is also this which allow to download the desired Unicode ranges from a font instead of the whole font.

Nemo bis (talkcontribs)

Thanks, that says the font is public domain. You can ask the font to be included for the languages with a language code, to start with. Then we can think what to do about the non-linguistic symbols...

2A02:8420:508D:CC00:56E6:FCFF:FEDB:2BBA (talkcontribs)

Some of the target languages are present on single font, but there's nothing in iso 639 for that. It would be easier to maintain since those fonts are updated/improved monthly. While it is an issue to load several languages at time on all pages, there won't be real problems, as the whole font weigh 1.6Mo in an HTTP request. It doesn't include non-linguistic symbols, Symbola would still be used separately.

I'm still suggesting "myn"; "egy"; "hlu"; "ssa"; "akk"; "aii"; and grc-dor since there's no standard for Doric Greek.

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