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Hmm. We could use a list for

chemoelectric — Sat, 5 Apr 2008 19:30:18 -0700

Hmm. We could use a list for Esperanto. Maybe sometime in the near future I’ll collect one.

Hehe, no problem,

Quincunx — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:47:29 -0700

Hehe, no problem, Florian.

And Eben, I think it looks fine now. :)

Okay, sorry Jelmar, I am so

Florian Hardwig — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:35:00 -0700

Okay, sorry Jelmar, I am so verouderd … ;°)

1.2 is up now. Again, my

Eben Sorkin — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:32:34 -0700

1.2 is up now. Again, my apologies for the problems.

I just checked. No, what

Eben Sorkin — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:28:25 -0700

I just checked. No, what Jelmar is seeing is real. It’s yet another mistake on my part for version 1.1. Florian, you have 1.0

1.2 coming up!

Sorry to say, but I guess

Florian Hardwig — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:52:20 -0700

Sorry to say, but I guess you have to check your computer, Jelmar! ;)

The PDF is just fine, in AcrobatReader 8.1 and others aswell.

Well, I thought it had

Quincunx — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:37:14 -0700

Well, I thought it had something to do with unicode as well, I was reading the txt-file in browser. So Florian was right, the problem was on my side. :)

With the new PDF however, I don’t see Gentium embedded? It renders the text very small with a different monowidth typeface. I don’t think that is caused by something on my side? :)

Thanks Florian!

Eben Sorkin — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:40:44 -0700

Thanks Florian!

There is no mistake, it is

Florian Hardwig — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:17:48 -0700

There is no mistake, it is ‘drieërlei Drieërlei DRIEËRLEI’. Jelmar, what you see is caused by the wrongly (?) applied text encoding of your application.

I will correct this mistake.

Eben Sorkin — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:00:59 -0700

I will correct this mistake. Thanks for catching it!

Will you send me a text file with just the correction to the dutch word? I am not seeing what you mean. Unless you are not sing the unicode and you are actually getting litterally the glyphs ’drieÃ«rlei’.

Do you see the same problem with this word in the PDF?

Nice one! On a sidenote: I

Quincunx — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 05:40:18 -0700

Nice one!

On a sidenote: I just wanted to mention that my name is cut off in the PDF (Jelmar Geert, instead of Jelmar Geertsma, in the txt it’s correct).

And in my Dutch sample, in the txt-file the word ’drieërlei’ for the letter ’iI’ is errorneous. It says ’drieÃ«rlei DrieÃ«rlei DRIEÃ‹RLEI’. :)

Thanks Denis! A Greek or

Eben Sorkin — Mon, 3 Sep 2007 09:23:10 -0700

Thanks Denis!

A Greek or Cyrillic would be a great thing to have but that may have to be a later cycle. In any event I hope to have this up & available for the Roman by Late Sept now. I know it’s late! Sorry to anyone who is waiting.

I could take a stab at

archaica — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:19:35 -0700

I could take a stab at classical Greek, but I was hoping somebody who knows it a lot better would do it.

What, no Greek?

akma — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:56:12 -0700

What, no Greek?

Eben, sorry I somehow forgot

moyogo — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:13:39 -0700

Eben, sorry I somehow forgot the thread for a while.
The data I gave is as I typed it on our Congolese keyboard layout. We don’t bother having precomposed characters since we need the combining diacritics for things like ɛ́, so we just use the same accent for á (instead of á).

If your application isn’t displaying Á like Á, that a missing feature in the font or a bug in your text layout libraries. It might be a lot of work to add diacritics placement but it is a requirement for many African languages.

Languages at a glance

Eben Sorkin — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:02:48 -0800

The Languages we already have are now compiled into two documents - a .txt file and a reference PDF version. This is version 1.2

You can download the PDF & txt at the bottom of this post. There is also an RTF file but Typophile does not support posting that file type. If you want that contact me & I will email it to you.

Last Updated: October 18, 2007

Please help the project: It’s fun, quick & kinda cool!

Please use the the downloadable files as a guide for adding languages or improving the ones we already have.

Langauages we still need include:

- Afrikaans
- Albanian
- Azeri
- Croatian
- Estonian
- Hausa
- Indonesian
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Malaysian
- Romanian
- Tagalog,
- Yoruba, and others.

Languages that are seemingly complete include*:

- Basque
- Latin
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Italian
- Lingala
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Turkish

Thanks!