Nick Doiron

@EdwardSJ151 you should be able to run it with the code in this PR. If you run into issues, please comment. This might help: - change the `logger.debug` line to...

This is great! Glad that this is more achievable with the new Python script. Here's where I'm at: - I may replace #4893 with a new PR tomorrow -- I'd...

I did a mini investigation of #2208. The difficulty is finding CartoCSS which could identify a country, city names within a country, or interpret from text, because CartoCSS doesn't have...

Re: the YAML for fonts, are you picturing a schema like this? ```yaml fonts: NotoSans: regular: - https://github.com/notofonts/noto-fonts/raw/main/hinted/ttf/NotoSans/NotoSans-Regular.ttf - [theoretical backup url] bold: - https://github.com/notofonts/noto-fonts/raw/main/hinted/ttf/NotoSans/NotoSans-Bold.ttf italic: - https://github.com/notofonts/noto-fonts/raw/main/hinted/ttf/NotoSans/NotoSans-Italic.ttf NotoSansMyanmarUI: regular:...

I agree that's too many URLs. I want to narrow down what works in the middle between every URL and the two format strings proposed in #5053. If I specify...

Here's my YAML concept: https://github.com/mapmeld/openstreetmap-carto/commit/a0a54687 Here the key is the font name (NotoSansArmenian, NotoSerifTibetan), it can have non-Regular variations (Bold), and support for multiple URLs. Then the script writes it...

Some good news re Han Unification: Mapnik [merged a PR](https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/pull/4493) to accept a `lang` attribute on a `TextSymbolizer` which gets passed to HarfBuzz. We also noted that older Noto Chinese...

Mapnik and Node-Mapnik have a new release with the `lang` attribute support https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/releases/tag/v4.0.6

The solution that makes sense to me (and that I added to my PR #4893) is using the Archive.org link from #4956 I think that's up to Unicode 15.0 emoji....

Relevant thread on Arabic and line height from 2016, which helped select the Arabic UI font (which unfortunately got discontinued) https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/2485 Also I see the current Noto Sans is a...