[112 new] Extension: Combining Diacritics and GPOS features for positioning
Bug #671503 reported by
Denis Moyogo Jacquerye
This bug affects 3 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu Font Family |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Many of the charcters in Unicode Blocks Combining Diacritical Marks (0300) and Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement (1DC0) are used in languages orthographies. Having the characters and OpenType GPOS features to correctly place them would be great.
Examples:
Russian, Cyrillic script: нога́ НОГА́
Lingala, Latin script: mbɔ́tɛ MBƆ́TƐ
Yoruba, Latin script: ẹ̀tọ́ Ẹ̀TỌ́
stacking: ɛ̄́ Ɛ̄́
For GPOS features, they also need to be added to all base characters so it's quite a project.
This blocks bug 670758 Expansion: IPA and Combining Diacritcals to cover more Latin-based African languages.
Changed in ubuntu-font-family: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in ubuntu-font-family: | |
importance: | Wishlist → Low |
tags: | added: uff-dm-new |
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Yeah, I 100% agree, for instance, in Serbian there are five diacritics that are used in dictionaries and learners' literature.
U+0300 COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT
U+301 COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT
U+030F COMBINING DOUBLE GRAVE ACCENT
U+0311 COMBINING INVERTED BREVE
U+0304 COMBINING MACRON
Unfortunately, Ubuntu displays them, NOT as combining diacritics, but just like another character that follows the modified character, rather than being on top of it.