Re: Amharic

[Hans Åberg]

On my system both input text and font use the Unicode range for Amharic. So the 
question is why it is changed to a private area character in the PDF. If 
Lilypond does not see the font, one would think the code point should not be 
changed.


> On 15 Aug 2022, at 19:02, Silvain Dupertuis <silvain-dupertuis@bluewin.ch> 
> wrote:
> 
> On my system (Ubuntu), your amharic characters are encoded in the Ethiopan 
> pane
> (U+1200-U+137C)
> and they are displayed with the FreeSerif Font
> For example ቱ (the third character) is defined as
> U+1271 ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE TU
> 
> So they are not in any private area.
> 
> I tested them in a LilyPond file, and your amharic charaters show up normally.
> Looking at the properties of the PDF files, it gives these fonts :
> 
> name                                 type              encoding         emb 
> sub uni object ID
> ------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- --- 
> --- --- ---------
> ETFDGR+C059-Roman                    Type 1C           Custom           yes 
> yes no       7  0
> MNLSBV+Emmentaler-20                 Type 1C           Custom           yes 
> yes no      13  0
> VLWNVH+FreeSerif                     TrueType          WinAnsi          yes 
> yes yes      9  0
> 
> So I would suggest you try and install FreeSerif on your system
> Look for example and fonts here
> 
> Le 15.08.22 à 17:55, Hans Åberg a écrit :
>> composer = "Mulatu Astatke (ሙላቱ አስታጥቄ)"
> 
> 
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