[Nix-dev] Call for input method PR review

[Raahul Kumar]

Thank you Mathnerd, you're a champ! I do like Roland's unicode fonts, but
at this point this is just about aesthetics, those are certainly enough to
get started.
Those are some obscure languages standing in the way of full compliance,
unfortunately we will have to hope someone with expertise in those
languages releases a free font or that Google does it for us.

https://github.com/rolandwalker/unicode-fonts#free-international-and-symbol-fonts

Aloha,
RK.

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 5:16 PM, Mathnerd314 <mathnerd314.gph at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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