Re: [general] Fwd: Font Issues of Central Asia

[Sabine Emmy Eller <s dot eller at voxhumanitatis dot org>]

Dear Jalil,

would you please join the mailing list here:
http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general

Kyrgyz (ISO 639-3 kir), 
Kazakh (ISO 639-3 kaz) and 
Uigher (ISO 639-3 uig)

are of high interest for our multilingual dictionary Ambaradan (http://voxhumanitatis.org/content/ambaradan-owm2-storage-engine) and the three languages you mention are certainly among the less resourced ones where still a lot needs to be done. 

Just yesterday I asked about good fonts for our dictionary and got really good answers from here. Unfortunately your message was in the moderation queue (well I should be happy about this, because otherwise I would probably never have seen this mail).

Would you please join us here? I believe it is the most apropriate place to talk.

Have a nice day!

Sabine

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Youssef Chahibi <chahibi at gmail dot com> wrote:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jose Silveiro <4jazma at gmail dot com>
Date: 2008/11/18
Subject: Font Issues of Central Asia
To: contact at arabeyes dot org


Greetings from Central Asia!

I am a linguist working in Kyrgyzstan.  Thank you for your excellent
work.  I would like to offer advice or input on making your fonts
function for the Arabic script variants of Kyrgyz, Kazakh and Uigher.
I don't have much experience making fonts, although I recently made
one based on an old Kyrgyz text for the Academy of Sciences here in
Bishkek.  But I do know the issues related to these alphabets.

I am particularly keen to see an adequate, publicly available font for
the Kyrgyz Arabic script, as even the ones available in Northwest
China are deficient (and no font that I know can properly render all
of it's letters).  I wrote a primer to help traders and linguists
master that alphabet, but had to modify an existing font in order to
properly display the text.

Jalil Nurbek

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