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Re: Amharic
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From: |
Hans Åberg |
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Subject: |
Re: Amharic |
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Date: |
Tue, 16 Aug 2022 09:57:24 +0200 |
> On 15 Aug 2022, at 23:22, Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> wrote:
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>>> 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
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>> This works.
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> Maybe your Mac OS Amharic font is using Apple-specific SFNT tables
> (not covered by the OpenType standard) that are not understood and/or
> supported by Pango...
It is a TrueType Collection, containing two fonts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueType#TrueType_Collection
I get:
% file /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Kefa.ttc
/System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Kefa.ttc: TrueType font collection data,
2.0, 2 fonts, at 0x20 TrueType Font data, 17 tables, 1st "GDEF"
% file /Library/Fonts/FreeSans.ttf
/Library/Fonts/FreeSans.ttf: TrueType Font data, 19 tables, 1st "FFTM", name
offset 0x15e75c