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Researching a list of languages supported by Source Sans font and its spin-offs and looking for the missing glyphs
Can you please provide a full list of supported languages at this time? Of course, some branches like Source Han Sans series that support Chinese, Japanese and Korean, for example, are also included in my question. I need this list to know what missing or buggy glyphs to pull requests for.
@NikitaGamer64 I’m afraid you will have to audit the fonts yourself to find if they support the languages that you need. I’m not sure it’s even possible for me to tell you every language the fonts support as any set of languages audited for will only be a subset of all the possible languages that can be covered. If you (or anyone else) would like to do this work and contribute your findings back to this project, I am open to including that information as a part of this project.
To add to Paul’s comment – the “list of languages supported” depends a lot on the user’s interpretation of what “support” constitutes. Source Sans fully supports Adobe’s AL1 through 4 character sets, more information (including language support of these character sets) about those here: https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/adobe-latin-charsets
For curiosity’s sake, I compared Source Sans’ charset support to AL5 (the largest Latin character set we specify) – Source Sans is short of AL5 by 285 code points:
U+0187 U+0188 U+0189 U+0191 U+0198 U+0199 U+019C U+019D U+019F U+01A4 U+01A5 U+01A9 U+01AC U+01AD U+01AE U+01B2 U+01B3 U+01B4 U+01B5 U+01B6 U+01B8 U+01B9 U+01C4 U+01C5 U+01C6 U+01C7 U+01C8 U+01C9 U+01CA U+01CB U+01CC U+01DE U+01DF U+01E0 U+01E1 U+01E8 U+01E9 U+01EC U+01ED U+01F1 U+01F2 U+01F3 U+0202 U+0203 U+0206 U+0207 U+020A U+020B U+020E U+020F U+0210 U+0211 U+0212 U+0213 U+0214 U+0215 U+0216 U+0217 U+0228 U+0229 U+022A U+022B U+022C U+022D U+022E U+022F U+0230 U+0231 U+0232 U+0233 U+024A U+024B U+024C U+024D U+024E U+024F U+027C U+0286 U+0293 U+0296 U+0297 U+029A U+02A0 U+02A9 U+02AA U+02AB U+02AC U+02AD U+02AE U+02AF U+02B5 U+02B6 U+02BA U+02C2 U+02C3 U+02C4 U+02C5 U+02CD U+02CE U+02CF U+02DF U+02E5 U+02E6 U+02E7 U+02E8 U+02E9 U+02EA U+02EB U+02EC U+02EE U+02EF U+02F0 U+02F1 U+02F2 U+02F3 U+02F4 U+02F5 U+02F6 U+02F7 U+02F8 U+02F9 U+02FA U+02FB U+02FC U+02FD U+02FE U+02FF U+030E U+0314 U+0316 U+0317 U+0321 U+0322 U+032B U+032D U+0333 U+0335 U+0336 U+033E U+033F U+0340 U+0341 U+0346 U+0347 U+0348 U+0349 U+034A U+034B U+034C U+034D U+034E U+0350 U+0351 U+0352 U+0353 U+0354 U+0355 U+0356 U+0359 U+035A U+035B U+035D U+0360 U+0362 U+0363 U+0364 U+0365 U+0366 U+0367 U+0368 U+0369 U+036A U+036B U+036C U+036D U+036E U+036F U+1D05 U+1D5A U+1D5D U+1D5E U+1D60 U+1D61 U+1D7C U+1D7D U+1D9E U+1DA8 U+1DC4 U+1DC5 U+1DC6 U+1DC7 U+1E00 U+1E01 U+1E04 U+1E05 U+1E08 U+1E09 U+1E12 U+1E13 U+1E14 U+1E15 U+1E18 U+1E19 U+1E1A U+1E1B U+1E1C U+1E1D U+1E2C U+1E2D U+1E2E U+1E2F U+1E30 U+1E31 U+1E3C U+1E3D U+1E4A U+1E4B U+1E4C U+1E4D U+1E4E U+1E4F U+1E50 U+1E51 U+1E54 U+1E55 U+1E64 U+1E65 U+1E68 U+1E69 U+1E70 U+1E71 U+1E74 U+1E75 U+1E76 U+1E77 U+1E78 U+1E79 U+1E7A U+1E7B U+1E7C U+1E7D U+1E86 U+1E87 U+1E88 U+1E89 U+1E8A U+1E8B U+1E8C U+1E8D U+1E99 U+200C U+200D U+200E U+200F U+201F U+20A8 U+20AA U+20AD U+20B0 U+20B3 U+266C U+267E U+2C63 U+2C64 U+2C6D U+2C6E U+2C6F U+2C70 U+2C72 U+2C73 U+A78A U+A78B U+A78C U+A78D U+A78E U+A7AA U+A7AB U+A7AC U+A7B0 U+A7B1 U+A7B2 U+A7B4 U+A7B6 U+A7B7 U+FFFD
To round up, here are two language-support testing tools which may or may not give you different results: Underware’s Latin Plus: https://underware.nl/latin_plus/ Rosetta’s Hyperglot: https://hyperglot.rosettatype.com
Let me look up all possible languages and conclude the list. I may also put a suggestion for any missing glyphs
Is it possible to add an enhancement label at this issue without removing question label? Cause I found some symbols that needs to be added: U+037F Ϳ U+03F3 ϳ
I wonder where I can find Source Sans or similar fonts for more scripts like Arabic, Devanagari and more
Found more missing glyphs for Venda: U+1E12 Ḓ U+1E13 ḓ U+1E3C Ḽ U+1E3D ḽ U+1E4A Ṋ U+1E4B ṋ U+1E70 Ṱ U+1E71 ṱ U+032D ̭
What is your goal? Suggestions for glyph additions will immediately have more traction if there’s a solid reason for their addition.
What is your goal? Suggestions for glyph additions will immediately have more traction if there’s a solid reason for their addition.
I want to make sure that more languages will be supported by this font in the next version
@NikitaGamer64 Thanks for your concern. I’m hoping that the next version of Source Sans will address adding more characters for African languages, but this is something that I have not looked at in a comprehensive manner yet. So in addition to Venda specifically, I'll doing my best to cover all the languages of Africa that use Latin orthographies, but it will be a little while before I get around to that yet.
U+019D Ɲ should have the same behaviour as U+014A Ŋ, meaning the default form is based on a scaled-up lowercase or based on uppercase N.
@NikitaGamer64 Thanks for your concern. I’m hoping that the next version of Source Sans will address adding more characters for African languages, but this is something that I have not looked at in a comprehensive manner yet. So in addition to Venda specifically, I'll doing my best to cover all the languages of Africa that use Latin orthographies, but it will be a little while before I get around to that yet.
Actually, I’d also like all the languages of Russia that use Cyrillic orthographies covered as well