[Nix-dev] Call for input method PR review

[Mathnerd314]

I aimed for full Unicode 8.0.0 glyph coverage in
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/10470, coming pretty close (99.45%).
The remaining glyphs are obscure ancient languages. The easiest (and most
colorful) way I found to test is the Unicode Wikibook:
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Unicode/Character_reference/0000-0FFF

The glyphs by themselves are not everything; there are some missing
combining forms and ligatures, the kerning/sizing seems weird, and of
course "artistic quality" must be considered, so feel free to package more.

-- Mathnerd314

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 10:40 PM, Raahul Kumar <raahul.kumar at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I see Lohit and Marathi, but that compares poorly to Debian/Fedora/Arch
> etc etc, which have the entire set of Bharati languages working out of the
> box. Fairly massive effort to package
> this many fonts, but I guess the only option is to get started. Is there
> any easy way to test unicode coverage of fonts versus Unicode 8.0.0? I am
> thinking of perhaps starting a Unicode OTF
> font packaging effort, but it would be nice to track how close the goal is.
> http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/IndicFontsList
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/data/fonts
>
> Aloha,
> RK.
>
>
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