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Add localized forms (alternate letters with centered ogoneks) for Navajo
Navajo language uses alternate designs for Latin Capital Letter A with Ogonek (Ą, U+0104), Latin Small Letter A with Ogonek (ą, U+0105), Latin Capital Letter E with Ogonek (Ę, U+0118), Latin Small Letter E with Ogonek (ę, U+0119), Latin Capital Letter U with Ogonek (Ų, U+0172) and Latin Small Letter U with Ogonek (ų, U+0173) in which the ogonek is centered rather than aligned to the right as in languages such as Polish or Lithuanian. I suggest to add those letters to the Inter font family as localized forms for Navajo texts and character variants because not all apps support Navajo language for writing.
I suggest to add those letters to the Inter font family as localized forms for Navajo texts and character variants because not all apps support Navajo language for writing.
Sounds like you have experience in writing Navajo.
Perhaps you can help me with some un-answered questions.
I investigated and documented what is required in terms of the Navajo characters, but could not actually type it in various applications.
Localizing a font for a particular language involves a language code.
For example the font Merriweather has loclNAV as this code.
This tells the application to make these character changes for this NAV language.
But LibreOffice does not recognize this code.
And neither do Word, and Affinity Publisher, etc.
After investigating it appears there is no official actual recognized NAV language code.
Merriweather, and other fonts, also add the Navajo characters into a stylistic set. In an earlier version of Merriweather it was in ss01.
Source Sans 3 has Navajo localization and ss07.
Montserrat has just the localization, no stylistic set
Noto Sans and Noto Serif have just the localization, no stylistic set.
When they added this to Noto I asked the developer how a user would actually use this - and got no answer.
(hmmm...wonder if it works somehow in browsers).
I was attempting to document how various fonts supported Navajo, but I could not see localization working in various applications. I use LibreOffice for this documentation, but it has no way to select and apply the Navajo language to some text (that I could find). It appears the only thing that works is a stylistic set. As least in LibreOffice, Word, and Affinity Publisher.
So how do you actually type in Navajo? What application(s) do you use? Do any applications enable selecting Navajo as the text language? Thanks.
I don't type in Navajo. I'm using LibreOffice, but it doesn't support Navajo.