Bug#908817: RFP: fonts-old-hungarian -- Font for Old Hungarian (Rovásírás)
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Version: 0.5
URL: https://oldhungarian.eu/
License: CC-BY-SA 3.0
Unicode 8.0 (released in June 2015) allocates the range U+10C80 ..
U+10CFF for "Old Hungarian" script and defines 108 characters.
Probably none of the fonts you ship provide glyphs for these
codeponts. I tried a few popular ones, including Google's Noto which
has probably the biggest coverage, and these ones aren't available.
This particular implementation that I'm pointing to is the only one I
could find on the web that uses the official final Unicode codepoints.
The font I'm kindly asking you to include seems to be of great quality
work for me. The author has taken care of several special cases,
including defining optional ligatures for some symbols that were
debated and didn't make it into the standard as standalone codepoints,
as well as including two special symbols that are used in Old
Hungarian but belong to another Unicode range and are missing from
many fonts.
This project:
https://oldhungarian.eu/
https://github.com/OldHungarian/old-hungarian-font
https://github.com/OldHungarian/old-hungarian-font/releases
Further links:
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U10C80.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Hungarian_alphabet
Thanks a lot,
egmont
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